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Now an internationally renowned author of the best-selling Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling wrote her first book?Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?while her young daughter napped. After being turned down several times, Rowling finally found a publisher. In the years since, her writing has earned her the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Whitbread Award for Best Children's Book, a special commendation for the Anne Spencer Lindbergh Prize, the Smarties Prize, and many more. Learn the story of her life, from her childhood in England through the present day.