Rowling, J. K.
From Astro-Databank
| Name |
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| Birthname | Rowling, Joanne Kathleen | ||
| born on | 31 July 1965 | ||
| Place | Bristol, England, 51n27, 2w35 | ||
| Timezone | GDT h1e (is daylight saving time) | ||
| Data source |
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| Astrology data |   08°01'  
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Biography
British writer of the immensely popular series of "Harry Potter" books. In three short years from her first book in 1997 about an 11-year-old schoolboy wizard, Rowlings has had a fantastic success. Her first three books have sold an amazing 30 million copies and have been translated into 31 languages. She has gone from being a penniless single mom to a famous author worth more than $20 million.
Rowland married a journalist in 1992, had a baby daughter Jessica in 1993, and divorced a year later. Reduced to living on welfare with an infant, she wrote "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Published in 1997, the book caused a sensation and led to "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Her fourth book, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," was released in July 2000 to millions of waiting hands, young and old.
On 11/09/2001, the fervently awaited movie of Harry Potter opened in the U.S. By now fabulously wealthy, Rowlings, who had written the first book in dire poverty, bought Killiechassie House in Scotland, built in 1865.
The wildly successful author married Dr. Neil Murray, an anesthetist, on 12/26/2001, at their house in Perthshire, attended only by immediate family. They had met in Edinburgh a little more than a year ago.
On March 23, 2003, she and Neil Murray welcomed their son David into the world. The well-known author gave birth to their second child, her third, a girl named Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray, in the evening of January 23, 2005 in Edinburgh.
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Events
- Financial : Best Period 2001 (Harry Potter first movie released)
- Relationship : Marriage 26 December 2001 (Dr. Neil Murray)
- Family : Change in family responsibilities 23 March 2003 (son David)
- Family : Change in family responsibilities 23 January 2005 (daughter Mackenzie Jean)
Source Notes
Neal Meredith obtained the British birth certificate and it confirms the July 31st '65 date; no time given.
(Prior to this: Date given in media; time unknown, born near Little Whinging, Surrey, England, (Chipping Sodbury General Hospital, it sounds like it's near Bristol England.)
Sandra Rozhon writes, 1/2001, "I e-mailed the agent of Joanne K.Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) requesting her birthdata. A reply just came in that she wishes to maintain her privacy and does not want to provide the information." Sandy has a spec of 8:44 PM as well as a specific Lat/Long for Chipping
Sodbury, 51N31 2W22, from an URL of the UK.
>>2001, date in question as the biography by Marc Shapiro gives 1966, p.19, for Joanne (not Jeanne) K. Rowling.
From Barbara Schermer's website, "Harry Potter was born on 7/31/1979, near Little Whinging, Surrey, England.
Neil Spencer, in Astrological Journal 11/2000, deduces Harry Potter's birthday to be 7/31/1986.
Jon Dunn notes that the actor who plays Harry was born 7/31/89!
Subj: MORE ON ROWLING
Date: 1/11/02 8:49:53 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: nan@mountainastrologer.com (Nan Geary)
To: LRodden@aol.com
Dear Lois: For what it's worth, here is what our author (whose pen
name is Neal Meredith) has to say about Rowling's data. Is any of
this helpful?
Warm regards,
Nan
At 1:08 PM +0000 1/11/02, Cooper Neal wrote:
> I wasn't aware of the birth date being in question I must admit. I
>suspect this indeed may be because - as Lois Rodden quotes, 'she wishes to
>maintain her (astrological?!) privacy' since she became famous - and perhaps
>recently she has been mischievously misleading! I also e-mailed her agent,
>so far without response.
> The birth date of 1965 is reliable though, I would say, as she has an entry
>in the 'respectable' Who's Who annual publication here. Each entrant in this
>is asked to submit personal details and not everyone complies - especially
>ladies with their birth dates! So she would have had the opportunity to
>decline. (No need to mislead in this instance). Also dates and age that she
>has spoken of recently which relate to the early writing and her mother's
>death tie back to 1965.
> Definitely Joanne, not Jeanne, and definitely Chipping Sodbury, near
>Bristol (not Surrey) - JKR herself in interview recently; 'Kathleen' was
>added by the publishers - at least 'K' was, to make 'JKR'. The local map
>here gives: 51 32 N 2 24 W.
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Sci-Fi/ Fantasy/ Horror (Fantasy)
- Notable : Famous : Notable extremes (Phenomenal success with Harry Potter books)
