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    Jodi Picoult

    Jodi Lynn Picoult (born 19 May in Nesconsent, Long Island, New York) is an American author. Picoult comes from what she calls a "non-practicing Jewish family". She was raised in her hometown in Long Island, but moved to the U.S. State of New Hampshire when she was 13 years old. She went to Princeton, a university in the U.S. state of New Jersey, where she studied writing and graduated from in She also went to Harvard University, where she earned a master's degree in education. She had many jobs, as a guest writer for magazines like Seventeen, to editing textbooks and teaching eighth grade English. She published her first novelSongs of the Humpback Whale in Her first book to debut as a New York Times best-seller was her novel Nineteen Minutes;[1] the following year her novel Change of Heart became her second novel to debut as #1 on the New York Times Best Seller's list.[1] Her last novel to be featured on the list was Handle With Care (

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    Jodi Picoult

    American author

    Jodi Lynn Picoult (;[1] born [2]) is an American writer. Picoult has published 28 novels and short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman.[3] Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide[4] and have been translated into 34 languages.[5] In , she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction.[6]

    Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterized as family saga, frequently centering story lines on moral dilemmas or procedural dramas which pit family members against one another. Over her writing career, Picoult has covered a wide range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, the Holocaust, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, fertility issues, religion, the death penalty, and school shootings. She has been described bygd Janet Maslin as "a solid, lively storyteller, even if she occasionally bogs

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    Picoult, Jodi

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    B orn Jodi Lynn Picoult, May 19, , in Long Island, New York; daughter of Myron (a securities analyst) and Jane (a preschool teacher) Picoult; married Timothy Warren Van Leer (an antiques dealer), November 18, ; children: Kyle, Jake, Samantha. Education:Princeton University, bachelor’s degree in creative writing/English, ; Harvard University, master’s degree in education,

    Addresses:Contact—Atria Books, 11th Flr., Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY Home—Hanover, New Hampshire. Web site—

    Career

    B egan career on Wall Street writing bond portfolios, ; wrote copy for an ad agency and taught eighth-grade English, late s; published first novel, ; became full-time writer,

    Awards:New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, ; best fiction books of the year list, Washington Post, ; Margaret Alexander Edwards Award, American Library Association, for My Sister’s Keeper, ; Alex Award, Young Adult Librar