Jacqueline Woodson
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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.
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I realized the more specific the story, the more universal it becomes.
"Tangent Talk with Jacqueline Woodson" in SAL/ON: A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures (2016 April 22)
The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South.
On still experiencing the aftereffects of segregation in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” in NPR
I think what happened was the language settled in me much deeper than it settled into people who just can read something once and absorb what they absorb of it.
On how she processed literature differently at an early age in “Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers” in
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Cheryl DunyeAlso in Greetings from Africa (1996)
Michael DaingerfieldAlso in The Day You Begin (2026)
Catherine GundAlso in Meanwhile (2025)Tiq MilanAlso in Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later (2023)
John LewisAlso won Walter Dean Myers Award
Malinda LoAlso won National Book Award for Young People's LiteratureAbout this person
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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