Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult wrote My Sister's Keeper. She was born in Long island and later moved to New Hampshire. She wrote her first story at the age of 5 and then went on to Princeton University and graduated in 1987. She wrote two short stories for 17 magazine while still in college. After an assortment of jobs after college she wrote for DC's comic Wonder Woman.Now she is married to Tim Van Leer and had 3 children.
       In her novel, My Sister's Keeper, Anna has to donate organs for her sister Kate, who is battling  leukemia. After years of giving her sister her organs she decides to stop and it almost rips their family apart.


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