Mystery Biography

She was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, on July 31st, 1965. Her sister Dianne was born when out mystery person was almost two years old. This person attended St. Michael's primary school; Alfred Dunn (the principal of the school) inspired a similarly named character in her writing.  

When she was a young teen, her great-aunt gave her an autobiography of Jessica Mitford, who became our mystery person's heroine. In high school, her best friend owned a blue Ford Anglia, which also appeared in her works. 

However, it wasn't until she was on a four-hour delayed train from Manchester to London that the idea for her well-known books sprang into her head. She said that it had all started with the sudden flash of inspiration for the bespectacled hero, and the rest of the ideas for the book came flooding in after that. 

Her mother died in 1990, after which the mystery person moved to Portugal. Within the next three years, she got married, had a child, got divorced, and moved back to England. In the last few months of that time she went through severe clinical depression. This inspired one kind of monster in her books, based on her feeling that she was having all her pleasant feelings sucked out of her. 

Her series is the best-known one for children of this day and age, although many adults enjoy it too. 

Do you give up? Here's her name (highlight this): J.K. Rowling