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Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
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Birth: | 19th May, 1966 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist |
Jodi Picoult was born in Nesconset, Long Island, New York, USA. She is an American novelist. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. She earned a BA degree in creative writing from Princeton University in 1987. She earned a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. She has written several novels include: Songs of the Humpback Whale, Harvesting the Heart, Picture Perfect, The Pact, Keeping Faith, Plain Truth, Salem Falls, Perfect Match, Second Glance, My Sister's Keeper, The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care, House Rules, Sing You Home, Between the Lines (with Samantha Van Leer), Lone Wolf, and The Storyteller. She married to Timothy Warren Van Leer in 1989. They have three children.
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