Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult served as the 2013 Harry Middleton Lecturer at the LBJ Presidential Library
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| Born | Jodi Lynn Picoult May 19, 1966 Nesconset, Long Island, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1992–present |
| Spouse | Timothy Warren Van Leer (m. 1989; 3 children) |
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Jodi Lynn Picoult (/ˈdʒoʊdi piːˈkoʊ/; born May 19, 1966) is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books translated into 34 launguages in print worldwide.
Picoult was born and raised in Nesconset on Long Island with her parents and one little brother; her family moved to New Hampshire when she was 13 years old. She has described her family as "non-practicing Jewish". Picoult wrote her first story at age five, entitled "The Lobster Which Misunderstood". Picoult's mother and grandmother were both teachers and says that their influence on her was very important .
She studied creative writing at Princeton University with Mary Morris, and graduated in 1987. She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. Immediately after graduation, she began a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English. She earned a master's degree in education from Harvard University. Picoult has two honorary Doctor of Letters degrees; one from Dartmouth College in 2010, the other from the University of New Haven in 2012.
In 2016, Jodi Picoult was selected to be Princeton's Class Day Speaker before their commencement.
Picoult became the writer of DC Comics' Wonder Woman (vol. 3) series following the departure of Allan Heinberg. Her first issue (#6) was released on March 28, 2007, and her last was issue #10 released on June 27, 2007.
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