Rowling plans to continue her Harry Potter saga for seven books, spinning a magical blend of wit and fantasy--a surreal melange of "the dark juvenile novels of Roald Dahl and C. S. Lewis," according to Carla Power, writing on the "Harry Potter" phenomenon in Newsweek. Rowling is good copy: a busy mom who wrote much of her first "Harry Potter" adventure while sitting in coffeehouses as her little daughter napped beside her, she presents a Cinderella story every bit as fanciful as the one she concocted in her book. But Rowling herself, winner of numerous awards and now employed full-time in her life's ambition as a writer, has taken her success in stride, changing her old one-bedroom flat in Edinburgh for a comfortable house, but still continuing her habit of writing in cafes.
A British Upbringing
Born near Bristol, England, Rowling grew up with a younger sister and a distinct inclination toward storytelling. Rabbits played a large part in her early tales, for Rowling and her sister badly wanted a rabbit. Her first story, at age five or six, involved a rabbit dubbed, quite logically, Rabbit, who got the measles and visited his friend, a giant bee named Miss Bee.
