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| | Joanne Kathleen Rowling AkA J.K. Rowling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on July 31, 1965, in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol, England. |
 | | While struggling to support Jessica and herself on welfare, Rowling worked on a book, the idea for which had reportedly occurred to her while she was traveling on a train from Manchester to London in 1990. |
 | | Rowling, now one of Britain's richest women, plans a total of seven books in the series, each chronicling a year in the life of Harry Potter, a young wizard, and his motley band of cohorts at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
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