My Sister's Keeper: Jodi Picoult

      Jodi Picoult was born in Long Island on May 19, 1966.  She was Jewish and describes her family as "non-practicing Jewish".  When she was only 5 years old, she wrote her first story titled "The Lobster Which Misunderstood".  At the age of 13, she moved to New Hampshire.  She went to Princeton University where she majored in writing.  While still in college, she wrote two stories that we published in Seventeen.  Shortly after graduation, she had gotten many jobs, such as editing textbooks and teaching eighth grade.  At Harvard University, she earned a master's degree in education.  She also became a writer of DC Comics' Wonder Woman.  Her first issue was released on March 28, 2007.  She is married to Tim Van Leer, whom she had three children with; Sammy, Kyle, and Jake.