In 1991 , Joanne Kathleen Rowling moved to Porto, Portugal, where she taught English as a second language. She married a Portuguese journalist , with whom he had a daughter. She then moved to Scotland in 1994 and finished his first book of Harry Potter , Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1995. The book was published by Bloomsbury Children Books in 1997 and in the United States by Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic Press in 1998 (where it was renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ) .

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In 2007 , Rowling produced seven individual copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard , a volume five fairy tales left to Hermione Granger by character Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007 ) . One of only seven copies were auctioned at Sotheby's in London. It sold for £ 1.95 million (about U.S. $ 4 million) , all proceeds went to the Children's Voice campaign , a charity Rowling co - founded to help improve the lives of institutionalized children across Europe. The book went on sale to the general public in December 2008 . In 2011, Rowling announced a new Harry Potter website called Pottermore , which features new and unreleased on the world of Harry Potter material. The casual vacancy (2012 ) is a novel aimed at adult readers . - J.K Rowling Biography

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