Jacqueline Woodson
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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This Is Life: 10 Writers on Love, Fear, and Hope in the Age of Disasters
2022
with Scott Simon and Bill McKibben
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
2020
with Jonathan Lethem, Lauren Groff, Aleksandar Hemon, Salman Rushdie, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and Victor LaValle
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity
2008
with Ron Koertge, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Gregory Maguire and David Levithan
