Jodi Picoult

With beautifully crafted words and uniquely real characters in seventeen skillfully written fiction novels, Jodi Picoult has definitely deserved all her success.

While her journey began at Princeton, where she studied creative writing, she published two short stories in Seventeen magazine. Jodi worked numerous jobs after graduation, ranging from technical writing for a Wall Street brokerage firm to teaching eighth grade students.

Jodi then married Tim Van, whom she met at Princeton, and then preceded to craft, Songs of the Humpback Whale. This first novel was created while she was pregnant with her first child and was only the beginning of her very thriving writing career.

Throughout her years as a novelist, Jodi has won several awards including: the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, the Book Browse Diamond Award, a lifetime achievement award for fiction from the Romance Writers of America, Cosmo’s Fearless Fiction Award 2007, Waterstone’s Author of the Year in the UK, a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award, a Virginia Reader’s Choice Award, the Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, and a Maryland Black-Eyes Susan Award.

Along with her seventeen novels, she also wrote five issues of Wonder Woman for DC Comics, and her novel My Sister’s Keeper was made into a movie by New Line Cinema. The Pact, Plain Truth, and The Tenth Circle, were also adapted into television movies.

Jodi Picoult knew her desire of writing and followed that dream all through college and beyond. Now look at all she has accomplished. Her story proves that a solid college education can certainly go a long way!

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