What Did J.K. Rowling Do Before She Was An Author?

Joanne Kathleen Rowling or J.K. Rowling as she is known is the author of the Harry Potter series of books that have revolutionized the children's literature genre since the release of her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Rowling was a student at the University of Exeter where she studied French and Classics which included a year of study at Paris; she later on worked as a researcher and bilingual secretary for the NGO Amnesty International in London. It was during this period that she first thought of writing a story with the concept of Harry Potter taking shape in her mind. She then moved to Porto, Portugal where she worked as a teacher and taught English as a foreign language.

She returned to England in 1994 where she was unemployed for a time and started writing the first of the Harry Potter books. The book released in 1996 became a best seller and has sold more than 70 million copies to date.