Jacquelyn Mitchard is an American author whose first book, The Deep End of the Ocean, was chosen for Oprah Winfrey’s book club. The book is about a family whose kidnapped son is found nine years later. Mitchard has also written Theory of Relativity and Cage of Stars, and has a syndicated column and writes for magazines. She lives in Wisconsin and has adopted eight children.
Jacquelyn Mitchard is a best-selling American author. She worked as a journalist before becoming a writer. Jacquelyn Mitchard holds the honor of having her first book, The Deep End of the Ocean, chosen for the first book in the Oprah Winfrey book club.
The Deep End of the Ocean, released in 1996, has sold more than three million copies worldwide and was number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Jacquelyn Mitchard said she, with six children at the time, stayed organized by keeping all the pages she was writing for the book in a Tupperware container. The book is about a family whose young son is kidnapped. The family moves to a new town nine years after the kidnapping only to find their kidnapped child also lives there. Jacquelyn Mitchard’s The Deep End of the Ocean became a feature film in 1999 starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams and Whoopi Goldberg.
Jacquelyn Mitchard’s 2001 novel Theory of Relativity is about a one-year-old girl who is orphaned when both of her parents die in a car accident. The child is adopted by his uncle who is a teacher, but also a bachelor. Other family members fight him for custody and nothing short of a media circus ensues.
In her 2005 story, Cage of Stars, Jacquelyn Mitchard writes about murder, mental illness, religion, and forgiveness. When a Mormon teenager’s sisters are killed by a schizophrenic man, the family is divided over how to handle her. Ronnie Swan tries to clarify her feelings about her identity and her religion in the face of what happened to her sisters. Cage of Starts follows Ronnie’s transition into adulthood as she decides to try to find out more about the man who killed her sisters.
In addition to fiction, Jacquelyn Mitchard is also pursuing her journalism career. She has a syndicated column in over 100 American newspapers. Jacquelyn Mitchard also writes for parenting magazines and has had articles published in publications such as Reader’s Digest, Ladies Home Journal and Newsweek. Jacquelyn Mitchard lives in Wisconsin and continues to write and adopt children, eight of them, as of 2007.
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