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- 19 May 1966
- Works
- 390
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Jodi Lynn Picoult (pron.: /ˈdʒoʊdi piːˈkoʊ/) (born May 19, 1966) is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jodi+Picoult">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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5 total works indexed
- The Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia enables predictive modelling of anticancer drug sensitivity
· 2012 · cited 7,252x
- Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Implantation for Aortic Stenosis in Patients Who Cannot Undergo Surgery
· 2010 · cited 6,220x
- Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement in High-Risk Patients
· 2011 · cited 5,496x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,772x
- The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma
· 2013 · cited 4,487x
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Quotes
- “The image of those midwestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you forget what has come before.”
- “When he gave it to her that day, she’d held it up to the light, turning it back and forth, until his hands had come over hers, stilling. ‘Be careful,’ he had said. ‘It’s fragile. See the soft lead? It bends. It can break.’ She wondered why she had not perceived that conversation then the same way she did now: as a shrill and distant warning.””
- “Allie had trouble convincing herself that the reason they had gotten married years later did not have to do with the fact that after college, they were two of the few who had come back to Wheelock. Cam had returned because it was expected of him, Allie because there was nowhere else she really wanted to be.””
- “He certainly wasn’t about to let a murderer off the hook because the man was his cousin. And bending the laws would be unethical. If there was any principle Cameron MacDonald lived by, it was doing things the way they were supposed to be done. After all, as both police chief and clan chief, it had been the pattern of his entire life.””
- “You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”
- “There are always sides. There is always a winner, and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.”
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Key facts
- Born
- 1966 (age 59 – 60), Nesconset, New York , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Education
- Princeton University ( AB ) Harvard University ( MA )
- Period
- 1992–present
- Spouse
- Timothy Warren Van Leer (m. 1989)
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Encyclopedic overview
Jodi Lynn Picoult (/ˈdʒoʊdi ˈpiːkoʊ/; born 1966) is an American writer. As of 2026, Picoult has published 28 novels, several short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages. In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction.
Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterized as family saga, frequently centering story lines on moral dilemmas or procedural dramas which pit family members against one another. 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. Picoult herself does not identify as a critically successful author, and has instead been described by Janet Maslin as "a solid, lively storyteller, even if she occasionally bogs down in lyrical turns of phrase."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jodi Picoult” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.