Jacqueline woodson - biography
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Jacqueline Woodson
American writer (born 1963)
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.
Jacqueline woodson - biography
After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017,[1] 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.[2] She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018.[3] She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.[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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