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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 grad 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 1992. Her first book to debut as a New York Times best-seller was her 2007 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 wa
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Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult was born and raised -happily-on Long Island...something that she believed at first was a detriment to a girl who wanted to be a writer. "I had such an uneventful childhood that when I was taking writing classes at college, I called home and asked my mother if maybe there might have been a little incest or domestic abuse on the side that she'd forgotten about," Picoult recalls. "It took me a while to realize that I already did have something to write about - that solid core of family, and the knotty tangle of relationships, which I keep coming back to in my books." Picoult studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. "The first time the editor called me to say she wanted to pay me for something I'd written," Picoult says, "I immediately called my mom
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Picoult, Jodi
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B orn Jodi Lynn Picoult, May 19, 1966, 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, 1989; children: Kyle, Jake, Samantha. Education:Princeton University, bachelor’s degree in creative writing/English, 1987; Harvard University, master’s degree in education, 1990.
Addresses:Contact—Atria Books, 11th Flr., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Home—Hanover, New Hampshire. Web site—http://www.jodipicoult.com
Career
B egan career on Wall Street writing bond portfolios, 1987; wrote kopia for an ad agency and taught eighth-grade English, late 1980s; published first novel, 1992; became full-time writer, 1992.
Awards:New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, 2003; best fiction books of the year list, Washington Post, 2004; Margaret Alexander Edwards Award, American