Biography of jodi picoult
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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
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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,
Born in , Picoult grew up in the Long Island town of Nesconset, New York, knowing from a young age that she wanted to be a writer. The older of two children of a Wall Street analyst and a schoolteacher, she attended public school. She graduated with high honors from Princeton University, where she majored in English and creative writing, in , and from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she earned a master’s degree, in Before becoming a full-time writer, Picoult worked as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, a copywriter at an advertising agency, a textbook editor, and an 8th grade English teacher who also directed school plays. New England has been her home for most of her adult life and frequently provides the backdrop for her fiction.
At Princeton, Picoult found a mentor in the travel and fiction writer Mary Morris, with whom she took several creative writing classes (she also studied with visiting professor Robert Stone). Two stori