Jacqueline Woodson
American children's and young adult author
Jacqueline Woodson is an American author who writes for children and young adolescents. Her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming took the 2014 National Book Award.
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American Born 1963 in Columbus, United States
About Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson was born on February 12, 1963, in Columbus, Ohio. She has written nearly thirty books for young people and adults, including Miracle's Boys, Feathers and Show Way. Brown Girl Dreaming also earned a Newbery Honor. Her novel Another Brooklyn was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. The Library of Congress named her National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2018 to 2019. In 2018 she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in 2020 the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and that same year she became a MacArthur Fellow. As a child she loved to write, and a fifth grade teacher's praise for one of her stories helped her begin to believe in herself.