J.K. Rowling married her first husband, Jorge Arantes, in 1992.
Rowling married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in October 1992. The couple had met in Portugal, where Rowling moved in 1990 to teach English as a foreign language. Their daughter, Jessica, was born in July 1993.
The marriage ended in divorce in 1995. Rowling then returned to the United Kingdom with her daughter and lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she worked on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. These biographical dates are often compressed into a single period, but the marriage itself belongs to 1992, while Jessica’s birth belongs to 1993.
Rowling later married physician Neil Murray in 2001. They have two children together. Her personal history is relevant to the chronology of her early writing career, but the Harry Potter books remain fictional works rather than direct autobiographical accounts.