The world was very lucky on May, 19th/ 1966, that was the very day that god gave us Jodi Picoult. She is the proud author of fifteen bestselling novels. She was born and raised in Nesconset. Jodi wrote her first story at the age of five years old, it was titled “The Lobster Which Misunderstood”. She has been a professional writer from 1992 to present. Jodi Picoult studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while she was still a student. Jodi is a very heart felt writer, she has won many awards for her writing skills. Some of these awards included The New England Bookseller Award for fiction, The Alex Award (from the Young Adult Library Services Association), The Book Browse Diamond Award for book of the year and many more. (more to come)
Jodi is happily married and has three beautiful children. Her husbands name is Tim Van Leer, they met in while attending the same college. “My husband is fully responsible for making my life run smoothly,” says Picoult. To this day her and her loving family live in Hanover, New Hampshire.
“The best part of my job is my fans,” she claims this because she loves waking up everyday to find emails from her fans saying how fantastic she is. Who wouldn’t? She says that the worst part of her job is “The Actual world of Publsihing”. On that note Jodi talks about how mergers between companies, tightfisted marketing departments, and a bizarre fascination with Hollywood makes the publishing world a very difficult place to forge a career. Everybody has someone who has influenced their life by a great deal, and for Jodi that is her mom and Mary Morris. “My mom, who always said “You can,” and who believed in me. And Mary Morris, who made me a better technical writer and taught me to challenge myself.”
Jodi Picoult is a very talented writer, she makes you feel what the character is feeling. I have only started reading My Sister’s Keeper and I am loving it. I would love to be just half the writer that she is, she truly is an amazing author.
“It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.”
— Financial Times
http://www.jodipicoult.com/ is the website that I found most useful to me.
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