Jodi Lynn Picoult (born May 19, 1966) is anAmerican 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.
Picout was born and raised in Nesconset on Long Island but moved to New Hampshire when she was 13 years old. Picoult wrote her first story at age 5, entitled "The Lobster Which Misunderstood." She studied writing at Princeton University, and graduated in 1987. She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. Immediately after graduation, she landed a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English. She earned a master's degree in education from Harvard University.
My Sister's Keeper is a novel written by Jodi Picoult in 2004 that tells the story of a young girl Anna who sues her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate who is dying from leukemia.
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