Harry Potter Author Success Story - J K ROWLING Biography

A divorced single mother once who was struggling to even make the both ends meet for her little girl after a while because of her never-give-up attitude finally managed to become so much successful that now she is richer than the Queen Elizabeth II. Believe it or not but this is a real-life story because she is none other than your childhood's favorite story Harry Potter's author JK Rowling. You may be surprised to know that all of us favorite story Harry Potter was rejected by 12 publishers. 13th number publisher who finally decided to publish the book also said this book is not worth publishing. In spite of that how did Harry Potter win so many people's heart and how did JK Rowling become so successful today that is I am going to share with you in this video. So let's get started. By every usual standard I was the biggest failure I knew. This is what currently one of the most successful author JK Rowling said whose book Harry Potter series have been translated into more than 50 languages millions of copies have been sold and have earned 20 crore dollars just from movie and sponsorship adoption. JK Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 in England's Yet City. Since her childhood she loved to write weird stories and then she read it to her younger sister. Besides writing stories she also loved to read stories as well. Her auntie gifted her the autobiography of Jessica Medford on Sun Revels and she liked it so much that within few days she read all the books by Jessica Medford. After that in 1982 when she applied for admission in Oxford University she got rejected. This was the starting of the rejection phase in her life. In 1990 at the time of coming back from Manchester to London by a train suddenly the story of a magic school student came into her mind and this is how all of our favorite story Harry Potter was created. After she came back to home without wasting any time immediately she started writing the story but within a few days she had to face a big problem. She lost her mother who was the most loving person in her life. She was mentally completely broken down although her mother's death had affected in her writing but she never stopped writing completely. After that she went to Portugal to find some new job and joined as an English teacher. Besides doing her job she continued in her writing also. During this time she met with a Portuguese journalist named George Arantes and after a few days they got married and after a few years they had a little baby girl. JK Rowling named her daughter after her favorite author Jessica but soon her marriage life happiness was also ended. Very bad behavior of her husband made her getting divorced. After that with her little baby she moved to her sister's house in Scotland. As a result she had to take all responsibility of her little daughter. In one hand the pain of her divorce and on the other hand she had no job at that time. Again she was mentally completely broken down and went into depression. Even sometimes suicidal thoughts came into her mind. At last as she had no other way she applied for welfare benefit. It was an initiative by the British government at that time to help poor and single parents. Meanwhile she finished writing her first novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. After that when she tried to publish a novel she had to face the biggest obstacle in her life. Her novel got rejected by 12 publishers simultaneously. Meanwhile the Bloomsbury Publishing House's chairman gave it to his eight-year-old daughter to read the first chapter of the novel Harry Potter. Just after reading the first chapter of the novel the little girl was so amazed that she demanded for the full book to her father. Only because of that Bloomsbury's publisher finally decided to publish the book just to make her daughter happy. 26 June 1997 the book was finally published and within a few days it was loved by a lot of readers. The book was rewarded with not only the children's book of the year award but also with many others award. After that Harry Potter series had been published one by one and it became so popular that a total of eight films were made on the seven novels of this series. Breaking off all the previous records the last novel of the Harry Potter series that is the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows become the best-selling book of all time. After publishing the book on the very first day it was sold more than 11 million copies in UK and USA. At the age of 17 years rejection from her dream college, at the age of 25 the death of her most loving person her mother and at the age of 28 getting divorced. In spite of all these obstacles in one thing she always remained consistent throughout her entire life and that was her story writing. The most significant thing is that after getting rejected badly from 12 publishers she still didn't give up. She believed in her writing and that helped her the most to achieve her dream life. At last I would like to finish this video with one of my favorite quote quoted by her. She said happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light. At last a little request to you if you find this video inspirational then please share it with your friends especially with those who are also Harry Potter fans just like you because by sharing you can also help to inspire someone else. Next video is on the next Sunday. Thanks for watching. More wisdom, more solution, better life.