Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Garri Potter i Filosofskiy Kamen)

J. K. Rowling is an English writer, writing under the pseudonym Joanne Kathleen Rowling, the author of the series of novels about Harry Potter (1997–2007), translated into more than 60 languages, including Russian.

She was born on 31 July 1965 in the small town of Yate, Gloucestershire, England (although at the beginning of her career she named another town — Chipping Sodbury, where she had never lived). According to the writer, the reason for such discrepancies in her biography was that Yate had always seemed to her a gloomy place, and her publishers and publicists supported her in this.…

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