Biography on jodi picoult childhood
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Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
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Picoult, Jodi
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Author
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 copy 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 Library Association, for My Sister’s Keeper, 2004; Alex Award, Young Adult Library Services Association, for My Sister’s Keeper, 2005; Bookbrowse Diamond Award for novel of the year, for My Sister’s Keeper, 2005; Vermont Green Mountain Book Award, for My Sister’s Keeper, 2005; Abraham Linco
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Jodi Picoult
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Critical acclaim
“Somebody who’s a terrific writer who’s been very, very successful is Jodi Picoult”
– Stephen King, in USA Today, 2/09
“Picoult is a skilled wordsmith, and she beautifully creates situations that not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us.”
— Boston Globe
“Jodi Picoult's novels do not gather dust on the bedside table. They are gobbled up quickly and the readers want more. ... You have to admire Picoult's grace under pressure. By throwing us into these debates she gives her readers the gift of faith in a higher justice — not the law, God or modern medicine but human goodness.”
—LA Times
“If Jodi Picoult were a general, she would be Patton; if a sports franchise, the New York Yankees; if a natural phenomenon, the sunrise. Which is to say, Picoult is not merely relentless - so are allergies and colds - but exquisitely so.”
—Tampa Tribune
“Turning the pages, all you’ll care about is what happens next. That’s the mark of pretty much every Jodi Picoult book, and it’s the reason she keeps topping best-seller lists.”
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