A biography: J. K. Rowling

Complete the text using the pasts of the verbs below

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FINISH / GO / BECOME / CONTINUE / RETURN / SPEND / BUY / COME / SPEND / PLAY /
SETTLE / BE / STUDY / TERRIFY / BE CALLED / WRITE / HAVE / MARRY / SEND / END / BE BORN

J. K. Rowling in Chipping Sodbury in 1965. She her childhood near Bristol. Two of the children who with her Potter, and she liked that name very much. At school, she wasn’t very good at sports, but she very creative and imaginative, and she was very interested in languages. She her first novel when she was five or six years old. When she was nine years old, she a school teacher who her.
After school, she French at Exeter University and one year in Paris. In 1992, she to Portugal to teach English. She a Portuguese TV journalist, but the story in divorce and she to Britain with her daughter. They in Edinburgh. She was unemployed and she spent her time writing.
The idea of telling the story of a boy who was a wizard to her in 1990. She working on the story for several years and her novel when she was in Edinburgh. Then she it to many publishers who rejected it. Finally, in 1996, Bloomsbury Children’s Book her novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: It was published in 1997 and immediately a best-seller. Writing is now J. K. Rowling’s full time job.