Jacqueline Woodson was born on February 12,1963 and is an American writer of books for children and adolescents.
19 Facts About Jacqueline Woodson
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Jacqueline Woodson 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.
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Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and lived in Nelsonville, Ohio, before her family moved south.
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Jacqueline Woodson helped to write the California standardized reading tests and caught the attention of Liza Pulitzer-Voges, a children's book agent at the same company.
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Jacqueline Woodson then enrolled in Bunny Gable's children's book writing class at The New School, where Bebe Willoughby, an editor at Delacorte, heard a reading from Last Summer with Maizon and requested the manuscript.
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Jacqueline Woodson was onto some future stuff, writing about race and gender long before people were comfortable with those dialogues.
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Jacqueline Woodson has said that she dislikes books that do not offer hope.
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Jacqueline Woodson has offered the novel Sounder as an example of a "bleak" and "hopeless" novel.
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Jacqueline Woodson writes about childhood and adolescence with an audience of youth in mind.
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Jacqueline Woodson has, in turn, influenced many other writers, including An Na, who credits her as being her first writing teacher.
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Jacqueline Woodson teaches teens at the National Book Foundation's summer writing camp where she co-edits the annual anthology of their combined work.
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Jacqueline Woodson was a visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris in spring of 2017.
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Jacqueline Woodson has tackled subjects that were not commonly discussed when her books were published, including interracial couples, teenage pregnancy and homosexuality.
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Jacqueline Woodson has several themes that appear in many of her novels.
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Jacqueline Woodson explores issues of gender, class and race as well as family and history.
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Jacqueline Woodson is known for using these common themes in ground-breaking ways.
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In November 2014, Daniel Handler, the master of ceremonies at the National Book Awards, made a joke about watermelons when Jacqueline Woodson received an award.
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Some topics covered in Jacqueline Woodson's books raise flags for many censors.
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Jacqueline Woodson suggests that people look at the various outside influences teens have access to today, then compare that to the subject matter in her books.