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J.K. Rowling is the pen name she uses as a writer. The J is for Joanne, her real first name, but she prefers to be called Jo. Apparently, people only call her Joanne when they're angry with her. The K is made up. Her publisher asked her to write using a name with two initials, but she didn't have a middle name.
J.K.羅琳是她作為作家的筆名。“J”是喬安妮的縮寫，她真名中的第一個名字，但她更愿被叫做喬。很顯然，人們只有對她生氣時才會叫她的全名。她的出版商叫她使用帶有兩個首字母的筆名，但她真名中沒有中名，所以“K”是編造的。
Jo did a few different things before she struck upon the idea of writing children's books. She worked as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International and as an English teacher in Portugal. The idea for the Harry Potter novels came from nowhere while she was on a train to London. She said,"The characters and situations came flooding into my head".
在她有寫兒童書的想法前，喬做過幾份不同的工作。她做過調查員、國際特赦組織的雙語秘書，在葡萄牙做過英語老師。她在去倫敦的火車上萌生了創作哈利·波特的想法。她說“人物形象和情景涌入了腦海。”
Seven Potter novels later and Rowling is one of the richest women in the world. In fact, she is the first novelist ever to become a billionaire from writing. Her rags to riches story is a fantasy story in itself. She was on government handouts while writing her first novel. Her last four books broke records for the fastest sellers in literary history.
七部哈利·波特小說出版后，羅琳成為世界上最富有的女人之一。事實上，她是有史以來第一位因為寫作成為百萬富翁的作家。她白手起家的故事本身就是一個奇幻故事。羅琳寫第一部小說時在政府宣傳部門工作，她的后四部小說打破了文學史上賣得最快的暢銷書記錄。
Today she devotes much of her time to many charitable causes. She famously demanded that Coca-Cola donate $18 million to the Reading is Fundamental charity if it wanted a tie-up with the Potter movies. The future? In March 2008, she said: "I will continue writing for children because that's what I enjoy".
現在羅琳在許多慈善事業上傾注了大量時間。最著名的是，她高調要求可口可樂公司向“閱讀是基礎”基金會捐獻180萬美元，如果可口可樂想通過哈利波特電影宣傳。未來羅琳會做什么？2008年3月，羅琳說“我會繼續為孩子們寫故事，因為這是我非常享受的事情。”
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