Jodi Picoult (Original Book) is the author of 27 novels, with over 40 million copies sold worldwide. Her last eleven books have debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and five have been made into movies, with two more – A SPARK OF LIGHT and BOOK OF TWO WAYS – being adapted as limited series. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Award from YALSA, the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit, and the esteemed Sarah Josepha Hale Award. She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of New Haven. Two of her books, BETWEEN THE LINES and OFF THE PAGE (co-written with daughter Samantha van Leer) have been adapted as a Broadway-bound musical; she is also the co-librettist of the new musical BREATHE, which premiered in 2021, and of the musical adaptation of THE BOOK THIEF musical, which will premiere in the UK in 2022. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.
Samantha Van Leer (Original Book) wrote the novels BETWEEN THE LINES and OFF THE PAGE with her mother, Jodi Picoult. She is a graduate of Vassar College with a degree in psychology and a minor in human development. She graduated Simmons College with a Masters in the Art of Teaching and dual certification in Elementary Education and
Special Education. She has spent the past few years as a fourth-grade teacher in Massachusetts. She now lives in Texas with her husband and puppy, where she is working on her next YA novel.
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