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Jodi Picoult

Nascido: May 19, 1966 – Nesconset, New York, United States

Jodi Picoult is an American novelist known for fiction that probes family conflict, medical ethics, legal dilemmas, and social justice. Her notable works include My Sister’s Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, and Small Great Things. A bestselling author, she has written numerous New York Times bestsellers, with several books adapted for film and television.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

Jodi Picoult’s career grew from a conventional literary apprenticeship into one of the most durable commercial-success stories in contemporary American fiction. Born and raised on Long Island, she studied creative writing at Princeton, where an early workshop with Mary Morris became a defining turning point. After Morris pushed her to cut and rebuild a story, Picoult kept revising until she sold work to Seventeen while still an undergraduate. She graduated from Princeton in 1987, went on to Harvard for a master’s degree in education, married fellow Princeton alumnus Tim van Leer, and wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, while pregnant with her first child. The pattern that would define her work was already visible: disciplined craft, heavy revision, and a willingness to bring private family pressures into dialogue with larger public questions. ((https://alumni.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2021-01/EveryVoiceSpeakerBios.pdf))

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I want you to live forever
-Songs of the Humpback Whale
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The great mystery to me wasn’t how babies were made, but why
-My Sister’s Keeper
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In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge
-Nineteen Minutes
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Nature knows what it wants. But that doesn’t make it any easier for the rest of us, does it?
-Lone Wolf
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Good writing cuts deep—for both the playwright and the audience
-By Any Other Name
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The Galápagos are a collection of islands flung into the ocean like a handful of gems on velvet
-Wish You Were Here
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The words are a flood rushing out of me; just speaking them, I am drowning
-The Storyteller
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The Center was the calm in the middle of a storm of ideology
-A Spark of Light
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There was a moment—one heartbeat, one breath—where all the differences in schooling and money and skin color evaporated like mirages in a desert
-Small Great Things

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Vozes da Comunidade

"If writing fiction were an Olympic track event, Jodi Picoult would be a gold medalist"

TIME

"It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes"

Financial Times

"Picoult has become a master—almost a clairvoyant—at targeting hot issues and writing highly readable page-turners about them"

The Washington Post

"Jodi Picoult is not one to shy away from fictional controversy"

Daily Mail

"Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships"

The Boston Globe

"Picoult writes with an all-knowing and piercing eye"

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"Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance"

Stephen King

"Picoult is a master of the craft of storytelling"

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