Jacqueline woodson biography summary organizers

American writer (born )

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, ) 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 to ,^[1] she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for to Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.^[2] She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in ^[3] She was named a MacArthur Fellow in ^[4]

Early years

Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and lived in Nelsonville, Ohio, before her family moved south.^[5] During her early years she lived in Greenville, South Carolina, before moving to Brooklyn at about the age of seven.

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