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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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- “I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwi…”Jacqueline Woodson
- “My sister taught me how to write my name when I was about three. I remember writing my whole name: Jacqueline…”Jacqueline Woodson
- “I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.”Jacqueline Woodson
- “Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you co…”Jacqueline Woodson
Writing: more sayings
- “I was writing stand up comedy for TV for around 5 years and just wanted to attempt it myself. Vir Das started…”Varun Grover
- “One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.”Gustave Flaubert
- “Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in.”Travis Beacham
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- “My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obvi…”Jane Pauley
- “Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely…”Ian Mcewan
- “That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than histo…”Oscar Wilde
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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