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Jodi Picoult (born 1967) 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 8th grade English classes. Soon after, she attended Harvard University to earn her master’s degree in education.
She is married to Tim Van Leer, whom she met while in college. They, their three children and a handful of pets, live in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Ms. Picoult is the author of eleven novels; 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), and Vanishing Acts (2005).
Her twelfth novel, The Tenth Circle, is expected to appear in bookstores spring 2006. A thirteenth novel is also in the works, Signal 1000 and is rumored to make an appearance in 2007.