1、The Story of J.K. Rowling and Harry PotterThe elder _ 显赫女人物 of British fantasy literature is J.K. Rowling, the _有天赋的创作者 of Harry Potter. Joanne Rowlings roots are_ the southwest of England, _she grew up. But the idea for Harry Potter came to her while she was on a _延误的 train between Manchester and L
2、ondon. She wrote down her ideas on the back of _ envelope. She then went to teach English in Portugal, _ she continued to add flesh_ the bones of the first Harry Potter story. But her name _ 和有联系Edinburgh in Scotland, _ she lived and_构思框架 for the whole series of seven books.There are many anecdotes
3、译_ about _, in 1990, J.K. Rowling began the first_草稿 of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. She had the extra burden of_(look) after her baby daughter while she worked, and because she was too poor _ own a typewriter, she wrote _用手. She spent many hours _ a single cup of coffee in a warm cafete
4、ria in Edinburgh because she had no money _(pay) for the heating at home._成功不是一帆风顺的 and Rowling might have _放弃. But she was _固执 and _克服了所有困难. It was only in 1997 _ she completed the first Harry Potter story, _, because the publishers in the USA requested an _调整 to the title, _被誉为 Harry Potter and th
5、e Sorcerers Stone.Rowling always intended that her _作品数量 would be a book every year until she had finished the series. In fact, it took her about ten years to complete. But after the first book, the success of each of the following titles was automatic. The _(five） book, The Order of the Phoenix sol
6、d about seven million_(copy)the day it was published.Rowlings style has been a _目标 for some criticism, but _ makes the books so important is _, because they _吸引 readers _ all ages, they create a special literary bond between parents and children._ an age of computer games and television programmes,
7、it is also claimed they are responsible for a renewed interest in reading. Harry Potter has even become part of the school curriculum, _ to the pleasure of the schoolchildren.And the Harry Potter _影响 is not just_限制 to the English-speaking world. Rowlings books have been _ 译成 more than 55 languages, and it has been _估计 that more than 250 million copies have been _发行 around the world. In 2005 it was estimated that Rowling had _积累 more than one billion dollars _存款 in her bank. She has thus _获得 the status of being the first writer_( become) a _亿万富翁.
