Rowling, J.K.

The British writer, J.K. Rowling, was born as Joanne Rowling in Yate in Gloucestershire, England. As an adult, she added her paternal grandmother’s first name, Kathleen, as her middle name. When she was four years old, the family moved to the village of Winterbourne in the same county, since the family had grown with the arrival of Joanne’s sister who was two years younger. Four years later, it moved again to Tutshill near Chepstow, Gwent, in Wales, where she grew up. She started her schooling at St Michael’s Primary School in Winterbourne, and then went on to study at Wyedean Comprehensive School before starting to study French and the Classics at the University of Exeter, where she got her B.A in 1986. Her course included a study year in Paris.