1. Jacquelyn Mitchard is the author of the best-selling novel The Deep End of the Ocean, which was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club, on September 17,1996.
10 Facts About Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Jacquelyn Mitchard is a professor of creative writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard studied creative writing for three semesters under Mark Costello at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard became a newspaper reporter in 1979, eventually achieving a position as lifestyle columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard is a contributing editor for More and is featured regularly in Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Hallmark, Real Simple and other publications.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard married Dan Allegretti, a reporter for The Capital Times, and the couple had three children.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard is an alum and distinguished fellow of the Ragdale Foundation, an artist's colony in Lake Forest, Illinois, where she went to write the first two chapters on the encouragement of author Jane Hamilton.
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In 2004 Jacquelyn Mitchard published her first book for children and young adults.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard has won the Bram Stoker Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and Walkabout Prize.
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In 2011, Jacquelyn Mitchard wrote that she and her husband had lost millions of dollars and most of their possessions to investment advisor Trevor Cook, who was convicted of operating a Ponzi Scheme.