APPENDICES
A. The Biography of J.K Rowling or Robert Galbraith
Although she writes under the pen name "J. K. Rowling" (pronounced rolling), the author's name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply "Joanne Rowling". Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers asked that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother. She calls herself "Jo" and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry .Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name
Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the
interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.
Birth and family
Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 i was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in on the awarded the had won the she later discovered the truth when featuring in an episode of the UK genealogy
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Childhood and education
headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for
the Harry Potter headmaster
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind", gave her a very old copy of Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview wit
Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English". Sean Harris, her best friend in the
portrait of Sean, but he really is very Sean-ish. Of her musical tastes of the time, she said "My favourite group in the world is through a punky phase, it was French and German, achieving two A's and a B and was
of that Nymph Again? or Greek and Roman Studies Recalled", it was published by the University of Exeter's journal Pegasus.
Inspiration and mother's death
After working at Amnesty International in London, Rowling and her then boyfriend decided to move to Manchester. In 1990, while she was on a four-hour-delayed train trip from Manchester to London, the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry "came fully formed" into her mind. She tol
Harry, then all these characters and situations came flooding into my head.
that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything in the finished book.
When she had reached her immediately. In December of that year, Rowling's mother died, after ten years
suffering fromHarry
Potter at the moment my mother died. I had never told her about Harry Potter." Rowling said this death heavily affected her writingand that she introduced much more detail about Harry's loss in the first book, because she knew about how it felt.
Marriage, divorce and single parenthood
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moved to be near Rowling's sister in Harry Potter in her suitcase.
Seven years after graduating from university, Rowling saw herself as "the biggest failure I knew".Her marriage had failed, she was jobless with a dependent child, but she described her failure as liberating:
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life J. K. Rowling, "The fringe benefits of failure", 2008.
During this period Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression, and contemplated suicide. It was the feeling of her illness which brought her the idea of signed up for is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless".
B. The Summary of the Novel
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
employees. In the midst of the chaos of his life, Comoran get clients, John Bristow. John is the brother of Lula Landry, a supermodel who died of alleged suicide jumping from the window of her flat. But John believes Lula was killed and he pays Cormoran to investigate this murder, assisted Robin, Cormoran was involved adventure Lula's disassemble killer and how to overcome financial problems.
This story stems from the tragic death of a famous model, Lula Landry who slammed his body fell onto the streets of Mayfair in London from the top of the snowy top floor balcony 3rd floor apartment she shares. There are millions of reasons that make the whole world believe that a girl with a mental disorder bipolar drug addict at the same time it has put an end to his own life without interference from others. But John Bristow, lift the victim's brother who is very loving and protective of her sister Lula believes that too sane to attempt suicide at the peak of a brilliant career. He may be able to accept the death of her sister, but can not believe that no one is responsible for the incident. Nothing whatever he wanted, except justice.
