Jodi Picoult

Novelist

Jodi Picoult was born in Nesconset, New York, United States on May 19th, 1966 and is the Novelist. At the age of 57, Jodi Picoult biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
May 19, 1966
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Nesconset, New York, United States
Age
57 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$10 Million
Profession
Novelist, Writer
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Timothy Warren Van Leer (m. 1989)
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3
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Jodi Picoult Career

Career

Picoult is the author of the DC Comics series Wonder Woman (vol.). (March 3), following Allan Heinberg's departure. On March 28, 2007, her first issue (number 6) was published, and her last issue (issue number 10) was released on June 27, 2007.

Nineteen Minutes, Picoult's book about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town, which was released on March 9th, was her first book to debut on the New York Times best-seller list. Change of Heart, her second book to debut on that list, was published on March 4, 2008. Handle with Care, 2009 and 2010 were both number one on the New York Times best-seller list, with Handle with Care in 2009 and 2010.

Jodi Picoult is aware that she is often criticized as a chick-lit author, but she claims that if she loses in critical acclaim, she gains more control: "I'm never going to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, not going to win a National Book award, never to be nominated" is a male recipient. Sales and readership are the two things you trade for. I would rather reach more people. It would be helpful not to be accused of being a bad writer, but if you do buy one of my books, you will be quickly dismissed of the belief."

Picoult participated in the interview of Brooke Nelson, a college student who was quoted in her local newspaper, that she felt that author Sarah Dessen's YA books were not appropriate for the Common Read program run by Northern State University, Aberdeen, and had instead pushed for the inclusion of Just Mercy, a civil rights lawyer's memoir. In reaction to Nelson's remarks, Picoult dismissed Nelson's views as "sinister" and "demeaning to women" and advised her followers on Twitter to "fight the patriarchy." When the story was published in Jezebel, The Guardian, the Washington Post, and Slate, Picoult apologised on Twitter, noting that her remarks had resulted in harassment and bullying of Nelson.

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Jodi Picoult Awards

Honors and awards

  • New England Bookseller Award for Fiction (2003)
  • Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association (2005)
  • Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year (2005)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America
  • Fearless Fiction Award from Cosmopolitan magazine (2007)
  • Waterstone's Author of the Year (UK)
  • Vermont Green Mountain Book Award (2007)
  • New Hampshire Granite State Book Award
  • Virginia Reader's Choice Award (2007)
  • Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award (2006)
  • Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award (2007)
  • New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit (2013–14)
  • Princeton Alumni Weekly Our Most Influential Alumni list
  • Sarah Josepha Hale Award Medalist (2019)

Literary prize winner says ChatGPT wrote some of her sci-fi novel which judges described as 'almost flawless'

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 18, 2024
Rie Kudan's new book, 'Tokyo-to-Dojo' ('Sympathy Tower Tokyo), was lauded by a judge for being "most flawless" and "universally enjoyable," bagged the biannual Akutagawa Prize on Wednesday. The book, set in a futuristic Tokyo, revolves around a high-rise prison tower and the architect's intolerance of criminals, with AI as a repeating theme. The 33-year-old author admitted that only five percent's of the book was written by AI, implying that ChatGPT opened her new opportunities as a writer and greatly influenced her process. In writing this book, she made good use of generative AI like ChatGPT,' she said at a party after the winner's announcement.' 'I would say that around five percent of the book was quoted verbatim the sentences generated by AI.'

9,000 authors include James Patterson and Jodi Picoult, who are requesting payouts from tech firms who'feed' their books to AI

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 19, 2023
More than 9,000 writers wrote an open letter this week to The Authors Guild, saying that it is unfair for the companies to be innovating world-shaping technology that will raise their revenues while simultaneously stripping off their oeuvres. The letter is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altmam, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. They must avoid the 'inherent injustice' of their life's activities being fed to the robots in order to'regurgitate' and reproduce.

OpenAI has signed a two-year contract with Associated Press to allow users access to some of its news material

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 13, 2023
The price of the deal, which was not disclosed by either party on Thursday, was not disclosed, but it does refer to a cache of content dating back to 1985 and will continue to function for two years. The two companies' statements announcing the agreement said they are already looking at' potential use cases for generative AI in [their own] news products and services [their own] news products and services], but didn't elaborate how. OpenAI founder Sam Altman launched ChatGPT a few months ago, but the software has since taken off. That said, the rollout has already become polarizing, as well as sparking a surge in 'generative AI' products that can recreate text. Although many are skeptical - or outright outraged - over the latest technology, OpenAI and AP have boosted optimism about the future of the AI platform in the world, saying that both believe in the responsible design and use of these AI systems.' ChatGPT parent OpenAI has stuck up a deal with The Associated Press to license the publication's sprawling archive of news stories - all to better train the increasingly popular chatbot that has the eerie ability to mimic human writing
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