Jodi Picoult is a best-selling author with 17 titles published. Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton, and excelled quickly, having two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. After graduating, she went on to work 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. She also received her Master’s degree in education before having her first child and writing her first novel.
Picoult’s seventeen titles are: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Harvesting the Heart, Picture Perfect, Mercy, The Pact, Keeping Faith, Plain Truth, Salem Falls, Perfect Match, Second Glance, My Sister’s Keeper, Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle With Care, and her latest- House Rules. Jodi Picoult currently lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with her husband and their three children.
April 22, 2010