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Bestselling American novelist, author of Nineteen Minutes, My Sister's Keeper and Hollow Bones. Official site: www.jodipicoult.com
At the first Salt Lake Book Festival, Picoult handed out 600 free copies of Nineteen Minutes, removed from every Utah public school in January. The talk was her last U.S. stop for Hollow Bones.
PEN America recorded 11,982 school book bans in the 2025-2026 school year, its highest one-year count since it began tracking in 2021. Stephen King is again the most banned author.
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