People are quite amazed by the ample worldwide popularity of the Harry Potter stories. The Harry Potter stories were written by the UK author J.K. Rowling. She was born on 31 July 1965. Her name is Joanne Rowling. But she writes under the alias J.K. Rowling because primarily her publishing company thought it was a helpful move not to show the point that she is a woman. The publishing house thought it could have a negative effect on the sales numbers if everybody instantaneously recognizes that the author was female. So, instead of showing her first name she used two letters. As she has no middle name she took Kathleen as basis for the K. in her pen name. Kathleen is the name of her fathers mother.
The very first Harry Potter book – Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone – was published in 1997 in the United Kingdom. Quite interesting is the fact that only 1,000 pieces of the first novel were published at the beginning. The original title of the novel was not Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, but Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. But when the book was released to the American market place in 1998, it was publicized as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.
After that J.K. wrote six additional Harry Potter books. Today the Harry Potter series is made of seven stories. These are:
- Novel 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
- Novel 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Novel 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Novel 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Novel 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Novel 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Novel 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Harry Potter books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been released in a lot of countries. Besides the tremendous success in the US and Britain, Harry Potter is also quite renowned in Europe. The Harry Potter novels (German book shop: astore.amazon.de/harry-potter-buchshop-21) have been released to the German audience under those titles:
- Teil 1: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen
- Teil 2: Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens
- Teil 3: Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban
- Teil 4: Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch
- Teil 5: Harry Potter und der Orden des Phoenix
- Teil 6: Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz
- Teil 7: Harry Potter und die Heiligtuemer des Todes
I must admit that I did not have the time to read all those books. But there are fans who know them all, which is quite remarkable and contributes to the huge success.
