Biography
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. 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. She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.
Filmography
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Movies 5
TV Shows 3
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Producer 1
Narrator 1
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Director 1
Writer
Meanwhile (2024)
Movie
Executive Producer
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later (2023)
Movie
Actress
BookTube (2019)
TV
Narrator
Show Way (2012)
Movie
The Girlfriend
Greetings from Africa (1996)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1963-02-12 (61 years old)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsMargaret Edwards Award, Langston Hughes Medal, Josette Frank Award, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Coretta Scott King Award, Charlotte Zolotow Award, National Book Award for Young People's Literature, MacArthur Fellows Program, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth / Teens, Young People's Poet Laureate, ALA Notable Books for Children, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Newbery Honor, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction, Guggenheim Fellowship, Lambda Literary Award, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Children's Literature Legacy Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, ALA Best Books for Young Adults
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