Her book Change of Heart, published on March 4, 2008, was her second novel to debut at number 1 on that list. Nineteen Minutes, Picoult's novel about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town, published on the 9th March 2007, was her first book to debut at number 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Her first issue (number 6) was released on March 28, 2007, and her last was issue number 10, released on June 27, 2007. 3), following the departure of Allan Heinberg.

Picoult became the writer of the DC Comics series Wonder Woman (vol. In 2016, Picoult was selected to be Princeton's Class Day Speaker before commencement. Picoult has two honorary Doctor of Letters degrees one from Dartmouth College in 2010, the other from the University of New Haven in 2012. She earned a master's degree in education from Harvard University. Immediately after graduation, she began a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English. in English after completing a 320-page-long senior thesis titled 'Developments.' She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton University with Mary Morris, and graduated in 1987 with an A.B. Picoult's mother and grandmother were both teachers, and she says that their influence on her was very important. Picoult wrote her first story at age five, titled 'The Lobster Which Misunderstood'. She has described her family as 'non-practicing Jewish'. She graduated from Smithtown High School East in June 1983.

Picoult was born in Nesconset, New York, on Long Island and has one younger brother. She has been described as, 'a paradox, a hugely popular, at times controversial writer, ignored by academia, who questions notions of what constitutes literature simply by doing what she does best.' Early life Over her writing career, Picoult has covered a wide range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, the Holocaust, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, fertility issues, religion, the death penalty, and school shootings. She is often characterised as an author of chick-lit. She frequently centers storylines on a moral dilemma or a procedural drama which pits family members against one another. Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterised as family saga. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. Picoult has published 28 novels, as well as short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Jodi Lynn Picoult ( / ˈ dʒ oʊ d i ˈ p iː k oʊ/ ) is an American writer. Picoult served as the 2013 Harry Middleton Lecturer at the LBJ Presidential Library

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