Quick Facts About Jacqueline Woodson
- Born
- February 12, 1963
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Writer
- Notable works
- Another Brooklyn
- Known for
- Brown Girl Dreaming, Another Brooklyn, Feathers, Miracle's Boys
About Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018 to 2019. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. She accepted the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2020. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.
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Awards & Honors
Walter Dean Myers Award
E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Middle Readers
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
ALA Notable Books for Children
Young People's Poet Laureate
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth / Teens
ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Hans Christian Andersen Award
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Children's Literature Legacy Award
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Lambda Literary Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellows Program
National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Charlotte Zolotow Award
Coretta Scott King Award
Jane Addams Children's Book Award
Josette Frank Award
Langston Hughes Medal
Margaret Edwards Award
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Newbery Honor
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
