Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
Best-selling author: My Sister's Keeper, The Tenth Circle
Jodi Picoult is an award-winning bestselling author of fifteen novels including The Tenth Circle (2006), Nineteen Minutes (2007), and her newest novel, Handle With Care (released in March 2009). Her books are translated into thirty four languages in thirty five countries.
The film adaptation of her novel, My Sister's Keeper (directed by Nick Cassavetes), hits theaters all over the US and UK on June 26! It stars Sofia Vassilieva (Ariel Dubois in the NBC television series Medium), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, No Reservations, and Definitely, Maybe), Cameron Diaz, and Alec Baldwin.
She's also written the graphic novel, Wonder Woman: Love and Murder (hardcover volume collecting WONDER WOMAN #6-10, DC Universe).
In 2003, Jodie was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. She has also been the recipient an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association; the Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year; a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America; Cosmopolitan magazine’s ‘Fearless Fiction’ Award 2007; Waterstone’s Author of the Year in the UK, a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award, a Virginia Reader’s Choice Award, the Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, and a Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award.
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