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About Jacqueline Woodson
American writer of children's and young adult books
Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for children and young adults. She is best known for Miracle's Boys and for titles including Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her work has been recognized with a Newbery Honor, and Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. She served as Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, then became the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2018 to 2019. She also received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018, the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2020, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.
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- “When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.”Jacqueline Woodson
- “I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the…”Jacqueline Woodson
- “As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the stree…”Jacqueline Woodson
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- “We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above…”Francis Bacon
- “David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream.…”Brandi L. Bates
- “Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hop…”James Merrill
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Books by Jacqueline Woodson
Another Brooklyn
2016
Red at the Bone
2019
If You Come Softly
2006
Hush
2006
After Tupac and D Foster
2008