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...ABest-selling author Jodi Picoult often takes on moral quandaries in her work. Which is one of the reasons she sweet-talked her way onto Death Row. TIME caught up with her on the eve of her new book's release...
TIME: One of the characters is a prisoner on death row. How did you study up on that?Picoult: I sweet-talked my way to the death cells [at an Arizona prison]. Nobody I met on death row who works there believes in the death penalty. They all say it's their...
TIME: How did that experience affect your own beliefs about capital punishment?Picoult: Even as I was writing this book, I was flip-flopping all over the place. I'm still leery...
TIME: You write about such dark subjects. What was it like for you growing up?Picoult: I had this ridiculously happy childhood. I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened...
PODCASTListen to the full interview with Jodi Picoult above or at time.com/podcast...