Jodi Picoult Biography
Jodi Picoult (Jodi Lynn Picoult) is an American writer. In 2013, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction. Approximately 14 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages.
She became the writer of the DC Comics series Wonder Woman (vol. 3), following the departure of Allan Heinberg. On March 28, 2007, her first issue (number 6) was released, and her last was issue number 10, released on June 27, 2007.
Picoult’s novel, Nineteen Minutes, about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town, was her first book to debut at number 1 on the New York 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. Her novels Care in 2009 and House Rules in 2010 also reached number 1 on the Times best-seller list.
Jodi Picoult Age
She was born on 19 May 1966 in Nesconset, New York, United States. She is 56 years old as of 2022.
Jodi Picoult Height
She stands at an estimated height of about 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Jodi Picoult Family
She was born and raised by her parents in Nesconset, New York, on Long Island. She has one younger brother. When she was 13 years old, her family moved to New Hampshire. She has described her family as “non-practicing Jewish”.
Picoult wrote her first story at the age of five, entitled “The Lobster Which Misunderstood”. Her mother and grandmother were both teachers, and she says that their influence on her was very important.
Jodi Picoult Husband
She is married to Timothy Warren Van Leer since 1989 and together they 3 children, Samantha van Leer, Kyle Ferreira van Leer, and Jake van Leer, live in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Jodi Picoult Net Worth
Jodi Picoult has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Jodi Picoult Salary
She earns an estimated salary of about $10000 to $50000 annually.
Jodi Picoult Education
Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton University with Mary Morris, and graduated in 1987. While in college, she published two short stories in Seventeen magazine
Immediately after graduation, Picoult began a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English.
She earned a master’s degree in education from Harvard University, and has two honorary Doctor of Letters degrees; one from Dartmouth College in 2010, the other from the University of New Haven in 2012.
In 2016, she was selected to be Princeton’s Class Day Speaker before commencement.
Jodi Picoult Small Great Things
A woman admitted to a hospital to have a baby and her husband request that their nurse be reassigned — they are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against bringing race into a courtroom. As the two come to develop a truer understanding of each other’s lives, they begin to doubt the beliefs they each hold most dear.
Originally published: 5 October 2016
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genres: Fiction, Legal Story
Awards: Audie Award for Multi-voiced Performance
Nominations: Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction
Jodi Picoult Book About Elephants
Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it’s been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment – or worse…Still Jenna – now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief – steadfastly refuses to believe in her mother’s desertion. So she decides to approach the two people who might still be able to help her find Alice: a disgraced psychic named Serenity Jones, and Virgil Stanhope, the cynical detective who first investigated her mother’s disappearance and the strange, possibly linked death of one of her mother’s coworkers…Together these three lonely souls will discover truths destined to forever change their lives.
Originally published: 14 October 2014
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Nominations: Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction
Jodi Picoult A Spark Of Light
“The lives of ordinary people become intertwined when a gunman takes hostages at a women’s clinic in the #1 New York Times bestselling author’s latest. At Mississippi’s sole remaining women’s reproductive services clinic, a gunman bursts in and takes its patients and staff hostage. The stories that brought these individuals to the clinic vary, from a woman awaiting cancer screening results to a protestor hoping to catch the clinic in a scandal that could be used in a pro-life campaign. Then there is the police hostage negotiator, whose daughter is also trapped inside the facility, and the gunman himself, who has a vendetta to carry out. Meanwhile, across the state, a seventeen-year-old woman lands in the hospital after an attempt to self-terminate her pregnancy and is subsequently charged by the pro-life DA for the murder of her unborn child. They, too, are connected to the events unfolding in the clinic. As the book moves backward in time, each chapter set one hour earlier than the last, we learn how all these people and their stories are unwittingly connected–and that none of these characters’ reasons for being where they are at this fateful place and time are exactly what it appears at first glance.”–
Originally published: 2 October 2018
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genres: Thriller, Suspense, Literary fiction
House Rules Jodi Picoult
House Rules is a story by Picoult about a boy with Asperger’s syndrome living in Townsend, Vermont who is accused of murder. The novel shows the struggle between the boy and his family, the law, and his disability.
Originally published: 2 March 2010
Publisher: Atria Publishing Group
Country: United States of America
Genres: Novel, Mystery, Psychological Fiction
Nominations: Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction, Goodreads Choice Awards Favorite Book
Jodi Picoult Wish You Were Here
Wish you were Here is an amazing, moving novel that talks about resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. The book is witten by the New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult.
Jodi Picoult Movies
- 2002: The Pact
- 2004: Plain Truth
- 2008: The Tenth Circle
- 2009: My Sister’s Keeper
- 2012: Salem Falls
Jodi Picoult Books | Best Jodi Picoult Books | Jodi Picoult Book List | Jodi Picoult Novels
- Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992)
- Harvesting the Heart (1994)
- Picture Perfect (1995)
- Mercy (1996)
- The Pact (1998)
- Keeping Faith (1999)
- Plain Truth (2000)
- Salem Falls (2001)
- Perfect Match (2002)
- Second Glance (2003)
- My Sister’s Keeper (2004)
- Vanishing Acts (2005)
- The Tenth Circle (2006)
- Nineteen Minutes (2007)
- Wonder Woman (vol. 3) #6–10 (cover date: late May 2007 – August 2007)
- Wonder Woman: Love and Murder (2007) (hardcover volume collecting Wonder Woman #6–10)
- Change of Heart (2008)
- Handle with Care (2009)
- House Rules (2010)
- Leaving Home: Short Pieces (2011)
- Sing You Home (2011)
- Between the Lines (2012)
- Lone Wolf (2012)
- The Storyteller (2013)
- Leaving Time (2014)
- Off the Page (2015)
- Small Great Things (a novel) (2016)
- A Spark of Light (2018)
Honors and awards
- New England Bookseller Award for Fiction (2003)
- Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (2005)
- Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year (2005)
- Lifetime Achievement Award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America
- Fearless Fiction Award from Cosmopolitan magazine (2007)
- Waterstone’s Author of the Year (UK)
- Vermont Green Mountain Book Award (2007)
- New Hampshire Granite State Book Award
- Virginia Reader’s Choice Award (2007)
- Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award (2006)
- Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award (2007)
- New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit (2013–14)
- Princeton University Our Most Influential Alumni A