Who is Jodi Picoult
Jodi Lynn Picoult (; born May 19, 1966) is an American writer. Picoult has published 27 novels, accompanying short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterised as family saga. She frequently centres storylines around a moral dilemma or a procedural drama which pits family members against one another. 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 has b...Read Full Biography of Jodi Picoult
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- I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.
- I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
- I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
- Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.
- The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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Etcisnotanumber: fascists are banning books. it's the 1930s all over again. author jodi picoult denounces book bans after florida school district pulls 20 of her titles from shelvesBobmakadoo: at the end of all of this, i doubt that florida will have any libraries left...jodi picoult is pretty inoffensive, so they are basically challenging all critical thinking, or any book that questions the status quo.
Maryserome: jodi picoult denounces book bans after florida school district pulls 20 of her books
Fkbarbeey: “you don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” ― jodi picoult, my sister's keeper
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