Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult (born 1966) is an American author. In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction.
Picoult was born and raised in Nesconset, New York. She studied writing at Princeton University and had short stories published by teen magazines while still in college. Immediately after graduation, Jodi found herself unable to make ends meet and in order to follow her lifelong dream of becoming an author, she took on a series of miscellaneous jobs extending from editing at a textbook publishing company to teaching eighth grade English classes. Soon after, she attended Harvard University to earn her master's degree in education.
Picoult is best known for centering her novels around human emotion and complex human relationships.
Recently she has confirmed that she will be the new writer of DC Comics' Wonder Woman series later this year (despite admiting in an interview that her son knows more about Wonder Woman than she does), following the departure of current writer Allan Heinberg after issue number five. [1]
She is married to Tim Van Leer,[2] whom she met while in college. They, their three children and a handful of pets, live in Hanover, New Hampshire.
[edit] Bibliography
- Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992)
- Harvesting the Heart (1994)
- Picture Perfect (1995)
- Mercy (1996)
- The Pact (1998)
- Keeping Faith (1999)
- Plain Truth (2000)
- Salem Falls (2001)
- Perfect Match (2002)
- Second Glance (2003)
- My Sister's Keeper (2004)
- Vanishing Acts (2005)
- The Tenth Circle (2006)
[edit] Trivia
- Almost every novel Picoult writes includes an attorney in one way or another. More often than not, her stories incorporate all the events that take place in the courtroom.
[edit] External links
- Jodi Picoult's official site
- Interview with Jodi Picoult in which she talks about research done for books, her career as an author, and what she likes to do when no one is around at LoadedShelf.10/06
