J.K. Rowling is the British author of the wildly successful Harry Potter series. Rowling,once a single mother living on welfare,is now a billionarie whose books have been translated into 60 languages and have sold over 400 million copies worldwide. The books also inspired a series of billion-dollar movies. Her journey from welfare mom to billionaire author happened in less than five years!.
Rowling conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a long train ride in 1990. She was so poor that she used to do her writing on stained napkins at local cafes while her infent daughter napped. Rowling reflects , ''That period of my life was a dark one,and i had no idea that there was going to be a kind of fairy tale resolution