BooksBy Any Other Name
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name.
“You’ll fall in love with Emilia Bassano, the unforgettable heroine based on a real woman that Picoult brings vividly to life in her brilliantly researched new novel.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women
Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.
In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.
Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name.
“You’ll fall in love with Emilia Bassano, the unforgettable heroine based on a real woman that Picoult brings vividly to life in her brilliantly researched new novel.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women
Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.
In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.
Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten.
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Contemporary domestic fiction often explores complex moral dilemmas and legal ethics, a field strongly defined by multi-perspective narratives like My Sister's Keeper. American novelist Jodi Picoult has authored twenty-nine novels translated into forty languages, building a wide readership through deeply researched stories centered on high-stakes moral choices and human relationships.
Born in Nesconset, New York, in 1966, Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton University, graduating in 1987, before earning a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, in 1992, beginning a sustained career of publishing major fiction regularly. Over three decades of writing, her books have gained broad recognition, earning accolades such as the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Awards from YALSA, a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America, the New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award. She also holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of New Haven.
In addition to her solo novels, Picoult has expanded her work into theater and young adult fiction. Co-authoring the YA novels Between the Lines and Off the Page with her daughter Samantha Van Leer, the duo adapted their books into the stage musical Between the Lines. Picoult served as co-librettist for the musical Breathe and co-adapted a musical stage version of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, which premiered in the United Kingdom in September 2022, along with developing a musical adaptation of Austenland. Active in literary advocacy, she sits on the Board of Trustees for PEN America, acts as a patron for the Carole Shields Prize for Fiction, and received the 2024 Free Speech Defender Robie Harris Author Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship. Picoult resides on a farm in New Hampshire with her husband, Tim van Leer, with whom she has three children and two grandchildren.
Picoult is known for constructing narratives around contentious ethical, legal, and social issues, frequently employing multiple point-of-view perspectives to present contrasting human arguments. Her work incorporates thorough research into legal statutes, medical procedures, historical events, and institutional frameworks, grounding character-driven family dramas in real-world debates. By placing ordinary families at the intersection of unexpected crises, her novels encourage readers to evaluate moral ambiguities from several viewpoints.
3 books in catalog
Contemporary domestic fiction often explores complex moral dilemmas and legal ethics, a field strongly defined by multi-perspective narratives like My Sister's Keeper. American novelist Jodi Picoult has authored twenty-nine novels translated into forty languages, building a wide readership through deeply researched stories centered on high-stakes moral choices and human relationships.
Born in Nesconset, New York, in 1966, Picoult studied creative writing at Princeton University, graduating in 1987, before earning a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale, in 1992, beginning a sustained career of publishing major fiction regularly. Over three decades of writing, her books have gained broad recognition, earning accolades such as the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Awards from YALSA, a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America, the New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit, and the Sarah Josepha Hale Award. She also holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of New Haven.
In addition to her solo novels, Picoult has expanded her work into theater and young adult fiction. Co-authoring the YA novels Between the Lines and Off the Page with her daughter Samantha Van Leer, the duo adapted their books into the stage musical Between the Lines. Picoult served as co-librettist for the musical Breathe and co-adapted a musical stage version of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, which premiered in the United Kingdom in September 2022, along with developing a musical adaptation of Austenland. Active in literary advocacy, she sits on the Board of Trustees for PEN America, acts as a patron for the Carole Shields Prize for Fiction, and received the 2024 Free Speech Defender Robie Harris Author Award from the National Coalition Against Censorship. Picoult resides on a farm in New Hampshire with her husband, Tim van Leer, with whom she has three children and two grandchildren.
Picoult is known for constructing narratives around contentious ethical, legal, and social issues, frequently employing multiple point-of-view perspectives to present contrasting human arguments. Her work incorporates thorough research into legal statutes, medical procedures, historical events, and institutional frameworks, grounding character-driven family dramas in real-world debates. By placing ordinary families at the intersection of unexpected crises, her novels encourage readers to evaluate moral ambiguities from several viewpoints.
