Picoult, Jodi
Jodi Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student.
Realism—and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent—led Picoult to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher—before entering Harvard to pursue a master's in education. She married Tim Van Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale.
Jodi has won numerous awards and her books are translated into 34 languages in thirty five countries. Three—The Pact, Plain Truth and The Tenth Circle—were made into television movies. In 2009 Cameron Diaz starred in the movie adaptation of My Sister's Keeper.
She and Tim and their three children live in Hanover, New Hampshire with three Springer spaniels, two donkeys, two geese, three ducks, six chickens, and the occasional Holstein.
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