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Jodi Picoult

Bio

JODI PICOULT (Author) is one of the top-selling novelists in the world, with #1 bestsellers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa. She has published 16 novels, including the New York Times bestsellers My Sister’s Keeper, Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, and Change of Heart, which had a one million-copy first printing and was on the New York Times bestseller list for 11 weeks. Her latest novel, Handle With Care, has also made the prestigious list, debuting in the top spot. A filmed adaptation of The Tenth Circle premiered in June 2008 on the Lifetime Network, starring Kelly Preston. Both The Pact and Plain Truth were also made into television movies for Lifetime, garnering the network some of its biggest ratings. Picoult has been nominated for three different British book awards and, for her body of work, was awarded The New England Bookseller Award for Fiction in 2003. In 2007, she wrote five issues of Wonder Woman for DC Comics, only the second woman to script the series since the character’s creation in the 1940s. Born and raised on Long Island, Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. After graduation, Picoult held a number of different jobs before entering Harvard University to pursue a master’s in education.