Jacqueline Woodson, author portrait
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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) received a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award and NAACP Image Award winner Before the Ever After; New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award; and Each Kindness, which won the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
Remember Us
Before the Ever After
El mundo era nuestro
The World Belonged to Us
El año en que aprendimos a volar
The Year We Learned to Fly
Red at the Bone
Harbor Me
El día en que descubres quién eres
The Day You Begin
This Is the Rope
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Brown Girl Dreaming
Visiting Day
Pecan Pie Baby
Beneath a Meth Moon
Each Kindness
Lena
The House You Pass On the Way
The Dear One
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Miracle's Boys
Peace, Locomotion
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Behind You
Miracle's Boys
Locomotion
Hush
Feathers
If You Come Softly
After Tupac and D Foster
Show Way
Coming on Home Soon
Maizon at Blue Hill
Between Madison and Palmetto
Last Summer with Maizon

Jacqueline Woodson (author of BROWN GIRL DREAMING) | What I'm Reading

Books

Remember Us
Before the Ever After
El mundo era nuestro
The World Belonged to Us
El año en que aprendimos a volar
The Year We Learned to Fly
Red at the Bone
Harbor Me
El día en que descubres quién eres
The Day You Begin
This Is the Rope
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Brown Girl Dreaming
Visiting Day
Pecan Pie Baby
Beneath a Meth Moon
Each Kindness
Lena
The House You Pass On the Way
The Dear One
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Miracle's Boys
Peace, Locomotion
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Behind You
Miracle's Boys
Locomotion
Hush
Feathers
If You Come Softly
After Tupac and D Foster
Show Way
Coming on Home Soon
Maizon at Blue Hill
Between Madison and Palmetto
Last Summer with Maizon

Media

Jacqueline Woodson (author of BROWN GIRL DREAMING) | What I'm Reading

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