Word: books
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When the book begins, Harry is living in a cupboard under the staircase in his aunt and uncle's house. His parents died when he was an infant, and his relatives treat him as a nuisance...
...tried to start a book out like that in America, a lot of people wouldn't be too happy," Ringen says...
...Rowling has shot from obscurity to fame since the first book's 1997 release in the United Kingdom...
...narrative in some ways mirrors her own life, according to the Scholastic Books Web site. Back when she started writing the books, Rowling was a divorced mother going through a difficult period. She wrote the first book in a coffee shop where she could bring her young daughter...
...This book--titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Britain--was funded in part with a grant from the Scottish Arts Council. Rowling has since won the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Smarties Prize...