Jodi Picoult is the #1 bestselling author of 29 novels, with 40 million copies sold worldwide. In August, her thirtieth novel, By Any Other Name, will be published. Five novels were made into movies, and five more - A Spark of Light, Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, Small Great Things, and Mad Honey -- are in development. She is the recipient of many awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Awards from the YALSA, a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America, the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit and esteemed Sarah Josepha Hale Award. Picoult is also the co-librettist, with Timothy Allen McDonald, of several musicals: Between The Lines (Off-Broadway, 2021); Breathe (2020), chosen as part of the Library of Congress COVID-19 Artist Response Collection; The Book Thief (UK, 2022/23), based on the international bestselling novel by Markus Zusak; and Austenland (in development). .She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.