Jacqueline Woodson
1963
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: prose
country of citizenship: United States of America
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Adelphi University
occupation: writer, novelist, children's writer, poet
award received: Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, Margaret Edwards Award, Newbery Honor, Lambda Literary Award, Charlotte Zolotow Award, National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Langston Hughes Medal, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Children's Literature Legacy Award, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, MacArthur Fellows Program, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Coretta Scott King Award, ALA Notable Books for Children, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Josette Frank Award, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Young People's Poet Laureate, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth / Teens
official website: www.jacquelinewoodson.com
Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and 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. She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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