Jodi Picoult

best-selling author of 30 books, including My Sister’s Keeper; received an A.B. in English from Princeton and a master’s degree in education from Harvard; her honors include a Hale Award, New England Book Award, Alex Award from the YALSA, lifetime achievement award from the Romance Writers of America, NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit, and the American Library Association’s Margaret Alexander Edwards Award; lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children