J. K. Rowling was born in England on July 31, 1965. Her first name is Joanne, but she prefers to be called Jo. She began writing stories when she was a very young child, and when she was growing up, she loved reading her stories to her younger sister, Dianne. In fact, the main character in Rowling's very first story—an adventure story about a girl who falls into a rabbit's hole—was