Author · born 1963

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American children's writer and novelist (born 1963). Born in Columbus.

Our catalogue lists 2 books by Jacqueline Woodson, mostly sapphic fiction and LGBTQ+ young adult fiction. They span 1995 to 1997. The most-read is The House You Pass on the Way (1997).

Books by Jacqueline Woodson

The House You Pass on the Way
Jacqueline Woodson
1997
From the notebooks of Melanin Sun
Jacqueline Woodson
1995

Awards

✦Lambda Literary Awards 2020 — Lesbian Fiction, Red at the Bone (nominee)
✦Lambda Literary Awards 2020 — Lesbian Fiction (nominee)
✦Lambda Literary Awards 2017 — Lesbian Fiction, Another Brooklyn (nominee)
🏆Lambda Literary Awards 1996 — Lesbian Fiction, Autobiography of a Family Photo (winner)
🏆Lambda Literary Awards — Overall, Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (winner)
🏆Lambda Literary Awards — Overall (winner)

From Wikipedia

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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Facts

Born: 1963-02-12, Columbus
Nationality: United States
Occupation: children's writer, film director, novelist, poet
Genres: prose

Source: Wikidata

Books by Jacqueline Woodson

The House You Pass on the Way

From the notebooks of Melanin Sun

Awards

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