To pay the bills, after graduation she worked at a variety of jobs, including copy writing and editing textbooks she even taught eighth-grade English and attained a Masters in Education from Harvard University. While still in college-she studied writing at Princeton University-Picoult published two short stories in Seventeen magazine. Even as a child, Picoult had a penchant for writing stories: she wrote her first story- 'The Lobster Which Misunderstood'-when she was five. Picoult was born and raised in Nesconset on Long Island in New York State when she was 13, her family moved to New Hampshire. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Currently-lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.Education-B.A., Princeton University M.Ed., Harvard University.

Where-Nesconset (Long Island), New York, USA.Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters and explores issues and emotions readers can relate to. But her mother's absence, and shameful memories of her past, make her doubt both her maternal ability and her sense of self worth.

Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who left when she was five. Written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, Harvesting the Heart recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Sue Miller. Now this gifted young writer turns her considerable literary talents to the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Picoult earned rave notices for her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale.

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