Joanne Rowling

My name is Joanne Rowling and I was born on July 31st, 1965 to Anne and Peter Rowling in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. In 1990, my family and I moved to Portugal, and that year my mother died. I began writing my first Harry Potter novel before my mother's death. During that time, I became a single mother with a daughter living on welfare. I suffered from clinical depression until I finished the first book to the Harry Potter Series in 1997. I was able to finish it by writing on scraps of tissue paper from an abundant of different cafes. We visited these cafes so my daughter could sleep while I would write. Within five years, I went from being on welfare to a multimillionaire. Over 400 million of my books have been sold worldwide and my current net worth is about one billion dollars.