WRITER

Jodi Picoult

1966 - Today

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Lynn Picoult (; born 1966) is an American writer. Picoult has published 28 novels and 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jodi Picoult has received more than 1,800,107 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jodi Picoult is the 6,373rd most popular writer (down from 5,556th in 2019), the 11,673rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,518th in 2019) and the 857th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

1.8M
Page Views (PV)
41.50
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
29
Languages Editions (L)
2.71
Effective Languages (L*)
4.22
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult, Movie Tie-in, Adult

With her penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of real people, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person, and what happens when emotions meet with scientific advances. ***Now a major film.*** 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 plagued her since childhood. **Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate a life and a role that she has never questioned until now.** **Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to ask herself who she truly is.** But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable a decision that will tear her family apart and have **perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.** **Told from multiple points of view, My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person.** Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life . . . even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? **Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, *Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.***

2004

The Pact

Literature, nyt:e-book_fiction=2012-02-11, Fiction

Was it a suicide or was it murder. Inseparable since they were babies, what happened to cause one of them to die?

1998

Mercy

Fiction, Married people, Euthanasia

1996

Perfect Match

Fiction, Married women, Women murderers

What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice? Perfect Match 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 these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well. In a heartbeat, Nina's absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she hurtles toward a plan to exact her own justice for her son -- no matter the consequence, whatever the sacrifice.

2002

The Tenth Circle

Date rape, Psychological fiction, Rape victims

2006

Keeping Faith

Miracles, Faith, Literature

1999