Since then, she's became the UK's best selling living author, the wealthiest woman in the world, but not before overcoming the hardships of being a single mother living on welfare. Now she was born in southwest of England. Rowling grew up along the border of England and riddled with her mother, other and sister. On her website, she wrote that she had always known she would be a books author as soon as I knew what writers were. I wanted to be one