![]() ![]() 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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