How an idea became one of the most read books of all times 🧙
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The top #3... in the WORLD! 🌎
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling is known worldwide, this is a fact. But did you know that is considered to be the #3 most read book of all times, coming after the Bible and Mao Tse Tung only?
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It all started with an idea... đź’
The author first had the idea for Harry Potter while delayed on a train travelling from Manchester to London King’s Cross in 1990. Over the next five years, she began to plan out the seven books of the series. She wrote mostly in longhand and amassed a mountain of notes, many of which were on scraps of paper.
She arrived in Edinburgh in 1993 with three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in her suitcase. She sent the first three chapters to a number of literary agents, one of whom wrote back asking to see the rest of it.
After finishing the first book and whilst training as a teacher, Harry Potter was accepted for publication by Bloomsbury. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone quickly became a bestseller on publication in 1997. As the book was translated into other languages, Harry Potter started spreading round the globe.
The Harry Potter books have since broken many records. In 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows became the fastest-selling book ever, selling 2.65 million in the first 24 hours in the UK. The Harry Potter series is now published in 80 languages, and over 500 million copies have been sold across the world.
Source: Bloomsbury official page
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But who thought about it? 🤔
Joanne Rowling. Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, she was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International in 1990 when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series.
The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, the birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband due to domestical violence, and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. Six sequels followed, and by 2008, Forbes had named her the world's highest-paid author.
Source: Wikipedia
Coded by LetĂcia V.