J. K. Rowling has written fiction since she was a child. Jo enjoyed telling her made-up stories to her younger sister and wrote her first 'book' at the age of six - a story about a rabbit called Rabbit ! Though the seeds of Harry had been sown as early as 1990, during a train journey, where she admits, Harry just strolled into my head fully formed." She didn't put all of the pieces together and start writing in earnest until the mid-1990s when she was living in Edinburgh , Scotland , raising her daughter, Jessica, alone. Not able to afford even a used typewriter -- let alone a computer -- Rowling wrote the earliest drafts of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in longhand. Both reviewers and readers have praised Rowling. She has won numerous awards, including the Smarties Prize for her first three books, and topped bestseller lists worldwide. Because the Harry Potter books dominated the New York Times bestseller list for so long, that newspaper created a separate list specifically for children's books.
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