Key facts
- Born
- 1966 (age 59 – 60), Nesconset, New York , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Education
- Princeton University ( AB ) Harvard University ( MA )
- Period
- 1992–present
- Spouse
- Timothy Warren Van Leer (m. 1989)
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Nesconset
- Occupation
- teacher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Nineteen Minutes
- Field of work
- editing
- Genre
- romance
- Official website
- www.jodipicoult.com
- Image
- Jodi Picoult, San Diego Writers Festival 2026.jpg
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- Jodi Picoult
- date of birth
- 1966-05-19
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- Art+Feminism
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- social media followers
- 185809
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Jodi Lynn Picoult (/ˈdʒoʊdi ˈpiːkoʊ/; born 1966) is an American writer. As of 2026, Picoult has published 28 novels, several short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and have been translated into 34 languages. In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction.
Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterized as family saga, frequently centering story lines on moral dilemmas or procedural dramas which pit family members against one another. Over her writing career, Picoult has covered a wide range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, the Holocaust, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, fertility issues, religion, the death penalty, and school shootings. Picoult herself does not identify as a critically successful author, and has instead been described by Janet Maslin as "a solid, lively storyteller, even if she occasionally bogs down in lyrical turns of phrase."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jodi Picoult” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.