Harry Potter was written by an Englishwoman in 1992.
Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling . Harry James Potter is the title character and protagonist of J. K. Rowling 's Harry Potter series . J. K. Rowling . Born in Yate , Gloucestershire , England , Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990 . The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother , birth of her first child , divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until she finished the first novel in the series , Harry Potter and the Philosopher 's Stone , in 1997 .