It is hard to believe that just four years ago, the Harry Potter series in the whole world no one never heard, except for Joanne Kathleen Rowling, writer, which he invented, and even publishers repeatedly rejected the annoyance of her manuscript. And suddenly it all changed drastically: the book of the Harry already translated into 42 languages, and their total circulation exceeded 76 million copies. Magic? Of course, even what! After all, Harry, this skinny kid with glasses with a broken shackle — a graduate of Hogwarts, the best in British schools miracle acting and magic.Fate of the JK Rowling, poised far, according to one critic, "from poverty to the Stars", is also a kind of fairy tale, a version of Cinderella, endures to XXI century.Philologist by training, a specialist in ancient literature (the profile in terms of business prospects hopeless, what Joan soon convinced) , it has not been able to find work. Finally, she was lucky: in the mid-80 Rowling, she said, was "very bad secretary of all time."In 1990, at age 26 years, the future writer went to Portugal to teach English. This work she likes: she gave lessons in the afternoon and evening, and in the morning to write the book. The account it was the third. The first two were addressed to adult readers and were, as I understand Joan, "very bad" — she threw them in the trash. New book tells of a boy who suddenly discovered that he was a wizard …
