American writer Jody Picoult is known as a bestselling author. According to The New York Times, they are 13 of her books. The writer has won The New England Bookseller Award and The Margaret Alexander Edwards Award. Films such as The Contract, The Holy Truth, The Tenth Circle, My Guardian Angel and Cruel Intentions have been made based on her works.
The main themes of the work of the prose writer Jody Lynn Picolt are loneliness, alienation and misunderstanding. The author wrote her first work at the age of five. The hero of the story was a lobster who was misunderstood. The total circulation of the published books has exceeded 14 million copies, they have been translated into 34 languages.
Path to literature
The biography of the future famous writer began in 1966. Piccolt was born on May 19 in New York in the family of a teacher. Both the girl's mother and grandmother were involved in teaching. They had the greatest influence on the future prose writer.
In addition to Jody, the family had a second child, her younger brother. With the children, the adults moved to New Hampshire. In the new place, the eldest daughter studied at Smithtown High School.
The girl decided to continue her education at the college of Princeton University. She studied literary skills. Especially from the teachers, the student singled out the writer Mary Morris. At the same time, the first works of the prose writer were published. Jody attended graduate school at Harvard University.
After completing her studies, Jody taught English literature, worked as a technical editor. The first novel, Songs of a Humpback Whale, was published in 1992. According to its plot, the main character Jane is constantly in the shadow of her husband. She decides to leave Oliver after a scandal.
Her previous attempt at parting almost turned into a tragedy. But now with her is Rebecca, her 15-year-old daughter. Both travel to the other side of the country, waiting for change. Husband and father start after them, wanting to return the fugitives. There are trials ahead that will either unite the family or completely destroy everything.
Significant works
In 1998 they published a new work, "The Agreement". The book "The Agreement" shows the story of two couples, the Herts and the Golds. Both families live next door, adults and children, Emily and Chris are friends. A terrible shock was the death of the girl and the accusation of this on her fan. In the course of the investigation, many mysteries will be revealed. The work keeps in suspense until the very denouement.
Picolt chose a family drama as the genre of her works. Hot topics are accompanied by elements of a detective story. Often, characters move from one novel to other works. So, Nina Frost, featured in Fatal Coincidence, is mentioned in Nineteen Minutes.
Repeatedly the writer's books were filmed. The most famous result is the painting "My Guardian Angel". The film is based on the novel Angel for Sister.
The author admitted that the idea for the creation of the work was the story of a couple who decided to have a second child as a donor for an older one in need of an organ transplant. Jody did not leave the question of what the baby felt, who was originally intended to be the savior of a relative. The ethical issue became the other side.
The picture was presented in 2009. The main character, who has filed a lawsuit against her parents, eleven-year-old Anne, was played by Ebileil Breslin. From the moment of birth, Annie Fitzgerald became a donor for her sick sister. She gave Kate both bone marrow and plasma and blood. However, Annie rebels against the current situation. She decides to seek the help of a lawyer in order to get a ban on the operation.
New novels
The idea of Fragile Soul is similar. Once again, all the attention of parents and their love is received by a sick baby, not a healthy child. Nine-year-old Ethan, the hero of the book "Look a second time", has an intolerance to sunlight. True, events are developing in a different direction.
From the point of view of a Nazi officer, the reader sees the Holocaust in Lessons of Mercy. The plot of "1000 and One Nights" is expertly woven into the plot of the bestseller. The executioner is so carried away by the stories of a potential victim that she gets life.
The unloved and lonely Sage's only friend is the elderly teacher Joseph. But one day he asks the girl to kill him. The shocked Sage teacher talks about his acquaintance with the heroine's grandmother, Minka. She ended up in Auschwitz at the very beginning of World War II. On the back of photographs of prisoners, collected secretly, she was writing a novel. A German officer wished to listen to him. Sage realizes that Joseph is a Man from his grandmother's past and decides to find out who he is.
The prose writer began the introduction to the new work "The Last Rule" with gratitude to her husband and children. Picolt admits that she considers them, her family, to be her main wealth.
The author managed to establish a personal life while studying in college. Acquaintance with the future chosen one Timothy van Leer took place in 1989. In an alliance with him, three children appeared, Kyle, Samantha and Jake. The daughter has already acted as a co-author of the mother in the novel Between the Lines. Previously, Tim took care of the children.
Family and vocation
Jody follows a healthy lifestyle. Every day you get up at 5 in the morning and go jogging in the company of a friend. A friend, Joan Collinson, Picolt dedicated the book Time to Say Goodbye. The main character Jenna could never believe that her mother left her in early childhood.
A decade later, the girl decides to start looking for a parent herself. She is helped by the detective and psychic who was once in charge of Alice's case. However, as new facts emerge, the number of riddles increases. The heroes learn the shocking truth about the past of the girl's family by chance.
At 7 am, work begins with the emails received from readers. Until 4 pm, the prose writer is engaged in writing and editing works.
The writer devotes all evenings to communicating with her family. She walks the dogs, takes care of domestic geese and donkeys.
The new work was published in 2019. Several burning topics intertwined in the "Spark of Hope".
