“There isn’t (an Oprah effect). I should have changed my name to Deep End of the Ocean”
Jacquelyn Mitchard was the first author to ever have a book selected for Oprah’s Book Club in 1996. Based on Oprah’s endorsement, Mitchard’s first book, The Deep End of the Ocean, sold 3 million copies in the first two years. The book was turned into a film starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
Mitchard followed this success with seven other fiction books, all hitting the New York Times bestseller list, and a new book, No Time to Wave Goodbye is coming out in four weeks. Mitchard was a widow with almost no money and four kids before she launched her winning writing career.
Now remarried, she has seven children. Her unexpected and incredible success is combined with an enormous devotion to her family and that is why I’m Obsessed with Jacquelyn Mitchard.
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August 25th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
I think the thing that is most remarkable about Jacquelyn Mitchard is not her writing (although it is a favorite of mine); but her strength in the face of adversity. She is one of those women that I now look to as a role model and hope I can grow up to be like. Sam, thanks for continuing to find interesting people like Jacquelyn to profile, it is great to come home from a long day of work to learn from her example and remember that there is light at the end of the tunnel.