Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
Best-selling author: My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult is an award-winning bestselling author of seventeen novels including My Sister's Keeper (2003), The Tenth Circle (2006), Nineteen Minutes (2007), Handle With Care (2009), and her latest book House Rules (released on March 2, 2010).
She's also written the graphic novel, Wonder Woman: Love and Murder (hardcover volume collecting WONDER WOMAN #6-10, DC Universe).
Her books are translated into thirty four languages in thirty five countries. Three – The Pact, Plain Truth, and The Tenth Circle, have been made into television movies. My Sister’s Keeper was a big-screen released from New Line Cinema, with Nick Cassavetes directing and Cameron Diaz starring, which is now available in DVD.
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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