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Jodi Picoult is aware that she is often pigeon-holed as chick-lit author, but stated that what she loses in critical acclaim, she gains in influence: "I’m never going to win the Nobel prize for literature, not going to win a National Book award, never even going to be nominated. Handle with Care in 2009 and House Rules in 2010 also reached number 1 on the Times best-seller list. 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.
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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.
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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." Although she is often characterised as an author of chick-lit, over her career, Picoult has covered a wide range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, and school shootings. She frequently centres storylines around 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.
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Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages.
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Picoult has published 27 novels, accompanying short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Jodi Lynn Picoult ( / ˈ dʒ oʊ d i ˈ p iː k oʊ/ born May 19, 1966) is an American writer. Picoult served as the 2013 Harry Middleton Lecturer at the LBJ Presidential Library