A ditional funding provided by these funders. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. J. K. Roeling is here, if you do not know who she is, let me tell you, two decades okay she sat on a delayed train when the image of a scrawny, black haired bespectacled boy without did not know he was a wizard came to her. Her vision soon captured the imaginations of readers around the world and it began an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. Time magazine has credited Harry Potter Series with creating a fictional universe so detailed and believable that an entire generation has pretty much chose tone live there. It is the best selling book series in history, with more than 4 450 million copies sold in 67 languages. Eight movies have also been spawned and they have grossed 7. 7 billion worldwide. Now five years after laying harry pot tore rest, she has written
In her 40s, one of the most powerful people at that time in the worlds, love letters all responding to be punished by morgan fuller 10 and asking please burn them because she kept them too. I think theres a very big difference if you write a biography of a woman born before the 20th century and the best example of that is alice james and jean strausss biography, attempting to piece together a life where we have the clues from court, her brother william and her brother henry and from her letters and diaries, trying to work out 15 or 16, james got into bed basically and suffered and died in her 40s and did not do the work her brothers received, seeming to have the biting wit that both laughed to some extent, a bit of prose style in either of them and a sharper mind, the only girl in the family of five sitting at a dinner table, listening to them, one of them to a stirring age which her mother made clear to her it is your job to start selling and start preparing yourself for marriage, to
Together the life and we have the clues from of course her brother william, her brother henry and from her letters and from her diaries trying to work out that he died in her 40s and did not produce the work that her brothers produced but had the abiding wish that lacked a bit of prose style than either of them in a better mind a sharper mind than either of them. The only girl in the family of five sitting at the dinner table listening to them until a certain age when her mother made clear to her its your job to start sewing and preparing yourself to be a mother and a bostonian matron. And her realizing whatever happened to her imagination did not match but was expected of her. So i think when youre writing if you are a woman you are always writing about oppression, self suppression and also being very very careful with the character emerges in the shining world in one piece. Be very careful just to be sympathetic about the idea that takes enormous wealth. That takes an enormous amount
Did get to talk to them i remind myself that i would never know what he told me was really accurate or not and i got a lot of information through shall we say accounts that were written at the time, and i depended on them so as far as getting the true story i am not sure i lost that much. But he died in march so no more chances. Of this year, yeah. He was 89 years old a thing. He was younger than the others. He was 19 when he went overseas. He had been raised in england. He went to be in and was american by birth but english by training you might say so he was really eager to get back there while london was being bombed and endanger. I guess they had just escaped the danger of invasion but he wanted to be over there. Yes . I am interested in your first book and im wondering if its kind of it and ambitious or if its kind of set you the wanting to write another one and im wondering where you are on that . Is there a sense of closure and completion or heavy now got the bug . Yes, and yes.
A ditional funding provided by these funders. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. J. K. Roeling is here, if you do not know who she is, let me tell you, two decades okay she sat on a delayed train when the image of a scrawny, black haired bespectacled boy without did not know he was a wizard came to her. Her vision soon captured the imaginations of readers around the world and it began an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. Time magazine has credited Harry Potter Series with creating a fictional universe so detailed and believable that an entire generation has pretty much chose tone live there. It is the best selling book series in history, with more than 4 450 million copies sold in 67 languages. Eight movies have also been spawned and they have grossed 7. 7 billion worldwide. Now five years after laying harry pot tore rest, she has written