Readers are deeply amazed by the big global success of the Harry Potter stories. The Harry Potter stories were written by the British writer J.K. Rowling. She was born on 31 July 1965. Her complete name is Joanne Rowling. But she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling because primarily her publishing company thought it was a beneficial idea not to reveal the aspect that she is a woman. The publishing company feared it could have a negative effect on the sales numbers if everybody promptly recognizes that the writer is a woman. Consequently, instead of revealing her first name she used two initials. As she has no middle name she took Kathleen as basis for the K. in her short form. Kathleen is the name of her grandma.
The very first Harry Potter book - Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone - was released in 1997 in the United Kingdom. Very mentionable is the aspect that only thousand units of the first book were produced 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 published to the American market place in 1998, it was publicized as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.
After that Joanne Rowling wrote several additional Harry Potter books. Today the Harry Potter series consists of seven books. These are:
- Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
- Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Book 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Book 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Harry Potter books have been translated into over sixty-five languages and have been published in a lot of countries. Besides the impressing success in the United States of America and the UK, Harry Potter is also noticeably liked in the EU. The Harry Potter books (German book shop: Harry Potter Buechershop) have been publicized to the German audience under the following headers:
- Band 1: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen
- Band 2: Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens
- Band 3: Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban
- Band 4: Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch
- Band 5: Harry Potter und der Orden des Phoenix
- Band 6: Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz
- Band 7: Harry Potter und die Heiligtuemer des Todes
I must admit that I did not have the opportunity to read all those novels. But there are kids who know them all, which is quite remarkable and contributes to the tremendous success.


















