Jodi Picoult

Jodi Lynn Picoult (born 19 May 1966 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 1987. 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 novel Songs of the Humpback Whale in 1992. Her first book to debut as a New York Times best-seller was her 2007 novel Nineteen Minutes; 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. Her last novel to be featured on the list was Handle With Care (2009). Four of her novels, The Pact (1998), Plain Truth (2000), The Tenth Circle (2006) and most recently, My Sister's Keeper, which published as a book in 2004 but released as a movie in 2009. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. In addition to writing novels, Picoult had written for DC Comics' third volume of Wonder Woman in 2007; she only wrote 5 issues. She lives with her husband, Tim Van Leer, their three children and pets in Hanover, New Hampshire.

 Books by Picoult 
 Years Title Notes 1992Songs of the Humpback Whale  1993 Harvesting the Heart  1995 Picture Perfect  1996 Mercy 1998 The Pact Adapted as a Lifetime Original Movie in 2002 1999 Keeping Faith Adapted as a Lifetime Original Movie in 2004 2000 Plain Truth  2001 Salem Falls  2002 Perfect Match 2003 Second Glance  2004 My Sister's Keeper Adapted into a movie in 2008 2005 Vanishing Acts 2006 The Tenth Circle 2007 Nineteen Minutes New York Times Best Seller 2008 Change of Heart New York Times Best Seller 2009 Handle With Care New York Times Best Seller 2010 House Rules 2011 Sing You Home 

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Category:1966 births
Category:Living people
Category:Writers from New York (state)
Category:Writers from New Hampshire
Category:People from Hanover, New Hampshire
Category:People from Long Island