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Jodi Picoult
American author
Jodi Lynn Picoult (;[1] born 1966[2]) fryst vatten 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 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction.[6]
Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterized as family fabel, 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 bred range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, the Holocaust, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, fruktsamhet issues, tro, the death penalty, and school shootings. She has been described by Janet Maslin as "a solid, lively berättare, even if she sporadisk
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Jodi Picoult’s career began with the DC Comics Wonder Woman series, and she has since become one of the world's best known authors.Her first novel, Nineteen Minutes, shot to the number one position on the New York Times Bestsellers List when it was published in 2007, paving the way for the impressive body of work that has followed.
Picoult was born in Nesconset, Long Island, to two non-practising Jewish parents. Even at a very young age, Picoult demonstrated her love for writing and wrote a story titled "The Lobster Which Misunderstood." Aged thirteen years old, she moves from Nesconset to New Hampshire and continued to demonstrate her love for writing throughout her high school years.
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
Picoult requested that straps be added to Wonder Woman’s bustier, but her suggestion was politely turned down. Picoult then took a different angle to strengthening the character; she chose to endow her with a little more
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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