The Learning Curve

World's Richest Author The Motivational Success Story of  J.K. Rowling. The most traumatizing moment in Rowling's life was the day her mother died. She was 25 at the time. The death of her mother shattered her completely. This happened six months after, she began writing "Harry Potter" and she was sorry that her mother never knew that she was writing it. After the death of her mother, she moved to Portugal in 1992 and got married. So, she gave birth to a daughter, Jessica. But things became worse.... Her marriage did not last long and only after 13 months she divorced him and moved to Edinburgh, with her daughter and the first three chapters of "Harry Potter". She was totally depend on state benefits and spent much of her time writing "Harry Potter" in cafes with Jessica sleeping in the pram next to her. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded and I was jobless a lone parent and as poor as possible to be in modern Britain, without being ...