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JODI PICOULT

Jodi Picoult was born and raised on Long Island. Writing stories has always been her passion. When she graduated from college, she needed jobs before she became a writer just to pay the rent. Picoult took jobs like writing short stories in //Seventeen Magazine// and teaching 8th grade English. Shortly after she married her husband, she became pregnant with her first child. Her experience with this led her to write her very first novel, //Songs of the Humpback Whale.// Other experiences with her family and friends influenced the ideas for most of her books. Picoult recalls, “It took me a while to figure out that I already had something to right about – that solid core of family, and the knotty tangle of relationships, which I keep coming back to in my books.” Now Picoult is the bestselling author of 14 novels, including the following: //My Sister’s Keeper//; //19 Minutes//; //The Pact//; and //Plain Truth.//

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