NHBF Author: Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including most recently the #1 bestseller BY ANY OTHER NAME. Her landmark novel 19 MINUTES was recently deemed the most banned book in the Unites States in a recent report conducted by PEN America. It is estimated that there are 63.7 million books by Jodi Picoult in print. Jodi's books have been translated into forty languages. 
Picoult 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. She was the recipient of the 2024 Free Speech Defender Robie Harris Author Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship. She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of New Haven. She is a patron of the Carole Shields Prize for Fiction which is awarded to female fiction writers. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for PEN America. Picoult lives in New Hampshire with her husband. They have three children and two grandchildren.

Jodi Picoult will deliver the NHBF Keynote on Friday night. Tickets are on sale now.

 

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.