Author
Jodi Picoult
Birth Date
May 19, 1966
(60 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Jodi Picoult is an American novelist known for writing emotionally charged stories that explore ethical dilemmas, family relationships, and controversial social issues. Raised in New York, Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton University and later earned a master’s degree in education from Harvard University. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in various jobs including teaching and editing.
Picoult gained widespread popularity with novels such as Keeping Faith (1999), The Pact (1998), and My Sister's Keeper (2004), which examines the moral and legal conflicts surrounding a family with a critically ill child. Many of her books tackle complex topics including medical ethics, racism, school shootings, domestic violence, and the justice system, often told through multiple perspectives. Her works have become international bestsellers and have been translated into numerous languages.
In addition to fiction, Picoult has written essays, collaborated on projects with her daughter Samantha van Leer, and seen several of her novels adapted for film and television. Her writing is recognized for its accessibility, emotional intensity, and ability to spark discussion about difficult moral and social questions, making her one of the most widely read contemporary American authors.
Picoult gained widespread popularity with novels such as Keeping Faith (1999), The Pact (1998), and My Sister's Keeper (2004), which examines the moral and legal conflicts surrounding a family with a critically ill child. Many of her books tackle complex topics including medical ethics, racism, school shootings, domestic violence, and the justice system, often told through multiple perspectives. Her works have become international bestsellers and have been translated into numerous languages.
In addition to fiction, Picoult has written essays, collaborated on projects with her daughter Samantha van Leer, and seen several of her novels adapted for film and television. Her writing is recognized for its accessibility, emotional intensity, and ability to spark discussion about difficult moral and social questions, making her one of the most widely read contemporary American authors.
Books
Hollow Bones 2026
When Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her...
By Any Other Name 2025
Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing...
Wish You Were Here 2022
Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the...
The Book of Two Ways 2020
Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She’s on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through...
A Spark of Light 2018
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate...
Small Great Things 2016
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few...
Off the Page 2015
Delilah and Oliver shouldn’t be together. But they are together. And just as they’re getting used to the possibility that happily ever after may really, truly be theirs, the universe sends them a...
Leaving Time 2014
Throughout her blockbuster career, Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that “not only provoke the mind but touch the...
The Storyteller 2013
Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef...
Lone Wolf 2012
On an icy winter night, a devastating accident forces a fractured family to reunite and make a decision that will change everything. Cara, once fiercely protected by her father, Luke, carries a secret...
Between the Lines 2012
Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver...
Sing You Home 2011
Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen.
Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her...
House Rules 2010
When your son can’t look you in the eye…does that mean he’s guilty?
Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing...
Handle With Care 2009
Every expectant parent will tell you that they don’t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they’d been given the choice....
Change of Heart 2008
Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her...
Second Glance 2008
An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the...
Nineteen Minutes 2008
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case,...
Plain Truth 2007
The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that...
The Tenth Circle 2006
Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She’s also a straight-A high school student, pretty and popular, and the light of her father’s life. Comic book artist Daniel Stone would...
The Pact 2006
The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have always been inseparable. So have their children—and it’s no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily’s friendship blossoms into a...
Keeping Faith 2006
Years ago, Mariah attempted suicide after discovering her husband Colin’s infidelity. When she stumbles upon Colin actively involved in his second affair, she files for divorce and retains custody of...
Vanishing Acts 2005
Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to...
My Sister's Keeper 2005
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has...
Perfect Match 2003
In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps...
Salem Falls 2002
A handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past. Once a prep schoolteacher, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student’s crush sparked a powder...
Picture Perfect 2002
To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared...
For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones. But during an escalating argument, Jane turns on him with an alarming volatility. In anger...
Mercy 2001
Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his...
Harvesting the Heart 1995
Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young...