Question: Paul Auster and Jodi Picoult, have which occupation in common?
Context: Perfect Match (2002) is a novel by Jodi Picoult.  It deals with family issues and crime, primarily child sexual abuse and murder.  It is one of Picoult's only novels not to follow her typical back-and-forth flashback format. Co-written alongside her daughter Samantha Van Leer, Between the Lines is Jodi Picoult's first ever young adult book released in 2012.  Picoult has since written a companion/sequel to "Between the Lines", released in 2015, called "Off the Page" which continues the story of main characters bookworm Delilah, her punk-rocker best friend Jules and Delilah's fictional come-to-life prince Oliver. The Inner Life of Martin Frost is a 2007 American romantic-mystery drama film directed by Paul Auster and starring David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, and Michael Imperioli.  Written by Paul Auster, the film is about an author who having just completed his fourth novel travels to his friends' vacant country house to spend a few weeks alone.  There he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman who inspires him to write a new story.  Filmed in Azenhas do Mar in Sintra, Portugal in the spring of 2006, "The Inner Life of Martin Frost" is Auster's fourth film as director and writer.  The film premiered at the New Directors/New Films Festival on March 21, 2007, and was released in the United States on September 7, 2007. The Invention of Solitude is the debut work of Paul Auster, a memoir published in the year 1982.  The book is divided into two separate parts, "Portrait of an Invisible Man", which concerns the sudden death of Auster's father, and "The Book of Memory", in which Auster delivers his personal opinions concerning subjects such as coincidence, fate, and solitude, subjects that have become trademarks of Auster's works. Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning.  His notable works include "The New York Trilogy" (1987), "Moon Palace" (1989), "The Music of Chance" (1990), "The Book of Illusions" (2002), and "The Brooklyn Follies" (2005).  His books have been translated into more than forty languages. Smoke is a 1995 American independent film by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster.  The original story was written by Paul Auster, who also wrote the screenplay.  The film was produced by Hisami Kuroiwa, Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein and directed by Wayne Wang.  Among others, it features Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Victor Argo, Forest Whitaker, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing and Harold Perrineau Jr.. Plain Truth is a 2004 TV drama directed by Paul Shapiro, starring Mariska Hargitay, Alison Pill and Jan Niklas.  The film is based on Jodi Picoult's book "Plain Truth", where an Amish teen hides a pregnancy, gives birth in secret, and then flatly denies it all when the baby's body is found, urban defense attorney Ellie Harrison decides to defend her. The Red Notebook is the title story in a story collection by the same name by Paul Auster.  The book consists of four parts, all stories which had appeared previously: "The Red Notebook" (1995), "Why Write?"  (1996), "Accident Report" (1999) and "It Don't Mean a Thing" (2000).  They are true stories gathered from Auster's life as well as the lives of his friends and acquaintances and they have all one thing in common: the paradox of coincidence.  Auster narrates things he writes about in his fiction, making one wonder if he's really telling the truth.  Implying that everything and everyone is somehow, mysteriously, connected to each other. Sing You Home is a novel by American novelist Jodi Picoult.  It was released on March 1, 2011, and tells the story of a lesbian fighting for the right to use frozen embryos created by her and her ex-husband.  The novel features a companion soundtrack CD of ten original songs with lyrics by Jodi Picoult and music by her best friend, Ellen Wilber.  Ellen Wilber also performs the songs on the CD in the voice of the story's main character, Zoe. Jodi Lynn Picoult ( ; born May 19, 1966) is an American writer.  She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.  Currently approximately 14 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages.
Answer: writer