JKR Siblings, etc

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

Hugs to bereaved Nethilia-Tasha. I wish I could comfort you.

Mongo Bongo wrote:

> Can someone please tell me how  many brothers and sisters J. K. 
> Rowling has, and most importantly, how much younger or older than
> her they are? Also, do I recall reading that one died? If so, when?

Joanne Rowling has one sister, named Diane. Jo and Di Rowling played 
with neighbor children named Ian and Vicki Potter. It was JKR's 
mother, not sibling, who died while she was writing Book 1 (therefore 
did not live to see her daughter a published author).

I went to http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/ (a very useful 
search tool for JKR interviews) and found: "her younger sister Di," 
in http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/magazine/Rowling2.htm