{{Short description|American writer (born 1963)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Jacqueline Woodson | image = 2018-us-nationalbookfestival-jacqueline-woodson.jpg | caption = Woodson at the 2018 U.S. [[National Book Festival]] | pseudonym = | birth_name = Jacqueline Amanda Woodson | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|2|12}} | birth_place = [[Columbus, Ohio]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | alma_mater = [[Adelphi University]]<br>[[The New School]] | period = 1990–present | genre = [[Young adult fiction]] | subject = [[African-American literature]] <!-- this should refer to nonfiction. Does it? --> | movement = | notableworks = {{plainlist| * ''[[Miracle's Boys (novel)|Miracle's Boys]]'' (2000) * ''[[Show Way]]'' (2006) * ''[[Feathers (novel)|Feathers]]'' (2007) * ''[[After Tupac and D Foster]]'' (2008) * ''[[Brown Girl Dreaming]]'' (2014) }} | spouse = | partner = Juliet Widloff | children = 2 | relatives = <!-- Infobox writer no longer supports the fields influences and influenced. See TALK --> | awards = {{awards |[[National Book Award]]|2014}} {{awards|[[National Ambassador for Young People's Literature]]|2018}} {{awards |[[MacArthur Fellowship]]|2020}} | signature = | website = {{URL|jacquelinewoodson.com}} }}
'''Jacqueline Amanda Woodson''' (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for ''[[Miracle's Boys (novel)|Miracle's Boys]]'', and her [[Newbery Honor]]-winning titles ''[[Brown Girl Dreaming]]'', ''[[After Tupac and D Foster]]'', ''[[Feathers (novel)|Feathers]],'' and ''[[Show Way]]''. After serving as the [[Young People's Poet Laureate]] from 2015 to 2017,<ref>Kellogg, Carolyn (June 3, 2015), [https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-jacqueline-woodson-young-peoples-poet-laureate-20150603-story.html "Jacqueline Woodson named the new Young People’s Poet Laureate"], ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dwyer |first=Colin |date=October 6, 2016 |title=These Are The 2016 National Book Award Finalists |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/06/496760469/these-are-the-2016-national-book-award-finalists |access-date=February 6, 2024 |website=NPR}}</ref> She accepted the [[Astrid Lindgren]] Memorial Award in 2018<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2018-03-27 |title=Jacqueline Woodson wins the world's largest prize for children's literature, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-jacqueline-woodson-20180327-story.html |access-date=2023-12-02 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> and the [[Hans Christian Andersen]] Award in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kantor |first=Emma |date=2020-05-04 |title=Jacqueline Woodson and Albertine Win 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Awards |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/83231-jacqueline-woodson-and-albertine-win-2020-hans-christian-andersen-awards.html |access-date=2025-08-21 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en-US}}</ref> She was named a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] in 2020.<ref name=":0" />
==Early years== Jacqueline Woodson was born in [[Columbus, Ohio]], and lived in [[Nelsonville, Ohio|Nelsonville]], Ohio, before her family moved south.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2016/11/29/1-bexley-to-host-award-winning-author-whose-works-appeal-to-all-ages.html|title=Bexley to host award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson|website=The Columbus Dispatch|date=November 20, 2016|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-date=June 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608140603/https://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2016/11/29/1-bexley-to-host-award-winning-author-whose-works-appeal-to-all-ages.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> During her early years she lived in [[Greenville, South Carolina]], before moving to [[Brooklyn]] at about the age of seven. She also states where she lives in her autobiography, ''[[Brown Girl Dreaming]]''.<ref>[https://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/frequently-asked-questions/ "Frequently Asked Questions"], Jacqueline Woodson website.</ref><ref>[https://www.npr.org/2015/06/19/415747871/jacqueline-woodson-on-growing-up-coming-out-and-saying-hi-to-strangers "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers"], NPR interview, December 10, 2014.</ref> As a child, Woodson enjoyed telling stories and always knew she wanted to be a writer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/authors/jacqueline-woodson/|title=AudioFile Magazine Spotlight on Author Jacqueline Woodson|website=AudioFile Magazine|language=en|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref> Her favorite books when she was young were [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s "[[The Little Match Girl]]" and [[Mildred D. Taylor]]'s ''[[Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theskimm.com/reads/jacqueline-woodson|title=Jacqueline Woodson on Finding Inspiration and Writing|website=www.theskimm.com|date=November 8, 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-17}}</ref>
==Writing career== {{blockquote|[I wanted] to write about communities that were familiar to me and people that were familiar to me. I wanted to write about communities of color. I wanted to write about girls. I wanted to write about friendship and all of these things that I felt like were missing in a lot of the books that I read as a child.<ref name=CAO>"Jacqueline Woodson." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literature Resource Center. HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY. June 13, 2009</ref>}}
After college, Woodson went to work for Kirchoff/Wohlberg, a children's publishing company. She 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. Although the partnership did not work out, it did get Woodson's first manuscript out of a drawer. She then enrolled in Bunny Gable's children's book writing class at [[The New School]], where Bebe Willoughby, an editor at [[Delacorte Press|Delacorte]], heard a reading from ''Last Summer with Maizon'' and requested the manuscript. Delacorte bought the manuscript, but Willoughby left the company before editing it and so Wendy Lamb took over and saw Woodson's first book published.<ref name=Brown>Brown, Jennifer M. [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20020211/40294-from-outsider-to-insider.html "From outsider to insider"] (interview), ''[[Publishers Weekly]]''. 249.6 (February 11, 2002): p. 156. Literature Resource Center. Gale. HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY. June 13, 2009.</ref>
===Inspirations=== Woodson split her youth between [[South Carolina]] and [[Brooklyn]]. In an interview with Jennifer M. Brown, she recounted how "The South was so lush and so slow-moving and so much about community. The city was thriving and fast-moving and electric. Brooklyn was so much more diverse: on the block where I grew up, there were [[German people]], people from the [[Dominican Republic]], people from [[Puerto Rico]], African-Americans from the South, Caribbean-Americans, Asians."<ref name=Brown/>
When asked to name her literary influences in an interview with [[journalist]] Hazel Rochman, Woodson responded: "Two major writers for me are [[James Baldwin (writer)|James Baldwin]] and [[Virginia Hamilton]]. It blew me away to find out Virginia Hamilton was a sister like me. Later, [[Nikki Giovanni]] had a similar effect on me. I feel that I learned how to write from Baldwin. He was onto some future stuff, writing about race and gender long before people were comfortable with those dialogues. He would cross class lines all over the place, and each of his characters was remarkably believable. I still pull him down from my shelf when I feel stuck."<ref name=rochman/> Other early influences included [[Toni Morrison]]'s ''[[The Bluest Eye]]'' and ''[[Sula (novel)|Sula]]'', and the work of [[Rosa Guy]], as well as her high-school English teacher, Mr. Miller.<ref name=Brown/> [[Louise Meriwether]] was also named.<ref name="glbtq">{{cite web|url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/woodson_j.html|title=Woodson, Jacqueline|last=Williams|first=Carla|year=2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907073823/http://glbtq.com/literature/woodson_j.html|archive-date=September 7, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=January 24, 2009|periodical=[[glbtq.com]]|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
===Style=== Woodson is known for writing intricate details of physical landscapes into her books. She places boundaries everywhere—social, economic, physical, sexual, racial—then has her characters break through both the physical and psychological boundaries to create a strong and emotional story.<ref name=Brown/> She is also known for her optimism and has said that she dislikes books that do not offer hope. She has offered the novel ''[[Sounder (novel)|Sounder]]'' as an example of a "bleak" and "hopeless" novel. On the other hand, she enjoyed ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]''. Even though the family was exceptionally poor, the characters experienced "moments of hope and sheer beauty". She uses this philosophy in her own writing, saying: "If you love the people you create, you can see the hope there."<ref name=Brown/>
As a writer she consciously writes for a younger audience. There are authors who write about adolescence or from a youth's point of view, but their work is intended for adult audiences. Woodson writes about childhood and adolescence with an audience of youth in mind. In an interview on [[National Public Radio]] (NPR) she said, "I'm writing about adolescents for adolescents. And I think the main difference is when you're writing to a particular age group, especially a younger age group, you're — the writing can't be as implicit. You're more in the moment. They don't have the adult experience from which to look back. So you're in the moment of being an adolescent ... and the immediacy and the urgency is very much on the page, because that's what it feels like to be an adolescent. Everything is so important, so big, so traumatic. And all of that has to be in place for them."<ref name=NPR>"Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Lethem and Jacqueline Woodson discuss the writer's view of adolescence". ''Talk of the Nation'' (August 19, 2004): Literature Resource Center. Gale. HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY. June 13, 2009.</ref>
===Teaching=== Woodson has, in turn, influenced many other writers, including [[An Na]], who credits her as being her first writing teacher.<ref name=rochman/> She also teaches teens at the [[National Book Foundation]]'s summer writing camp where she co-edits the annual anthology of their combined work.<ref name=Brown/> She was also a visiting fellow at the [[American Library in Paris]] in spring of 2017.
==Themes== [[File:20200116SM587.jpg|thumb|Woodson along with writer [[Jason Reynolds]] and Librarian of Congress [[Carla Hayden]] in January 2020]] Some reviewers have labeled Woodson's writings as "issue-related", but she believes that her books address universal questions.<ref name=Brown/> She tackled uncommon and taboo subjects when originally published, including interracial couples, [[teenage pregnancy]] and [[homosexuality]]. She often does this with sympathetic characters put into realistic situations.<ref name=Brown/> Woodson states that her interests lie in exploring many different perspectives through her writings, not in forcing her views onto others.<ref name=CAO/>
Woodson has several themes that appear in many of her novels. She explores issues of gender, class and race as well as family and history. She is known for using these common themes in ground-breaking ways.<ref name=rochman>Rochman, Hazel. "Jacqueline Woodson", ''Booklist''. 101.11 (February 1, 2005), p. 968. Literature Resource Center. Gale. HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY. June 13, 2009.</ref> While many of her characters are given labels that make them "invisible" to society, Woodson is most often writing about their search for self rather than a search for equality or social justice.<ref name=CAO/>
===Gender=== Only ''The Notebooks of Melanin Sun'', ''Miracle's Boys,'' and ''Locomotion'' are written from a male perspective. The rest of Woodson's works feature female narrators.<ref name=rochman/> However, her 2009 small story "Trev", published in ''[[How Beautiful the Ordinary|How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity]]'', features a [[transgender]] male narrator.
===African-American society and history=== {{blockquote|Black women have been everywhere--building the railroads, cleaning the kitchens, starting revolutions, writing poetry, leading voter registration drives and leading slaves to freedom. We've been there and done that. I want the people who have come before me to be part of the stories that I'm telling, because if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be telling stories.<ref name=rochman/>}}
In her 2003 novel, ''Coming on Home Soon'', she explores both race and gender within the historical context of [[World War II]].<ref name=rochman/>
''The Other Side'' is a poetic look at race through two young girls, one black and one white, who sit on either side of the fence that separates their worlds.<ref name=CAO/>
In November 2014, [[Daniel Handler]], the master of ceremonies at the [[National Book Award]]s, made a joke about [[watermelon stereotype|watermelon]]s when Woodson received an award. In a ''[[New York Times]]'' Op-Ed published shortly thereafter, "The Pain of the Watermelon Joke," Woodson explained that "in making light of that deep and troubled history" with his joke, Daniel Handler had come from a place of ignorance. She underscored the need for her mission to "give people a sense of this country's brilliant and brutal history, so no one ever thinks they can walk onto a stage one evening and laugh at another's too often painful past."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/opinion/the-pain-of-the-watermelon-joke.html|last=Woodson|first=Jacqueline|title=The Pain of the Watermelon Joke|date=November 28, 2014|newspaper=New York Times}}</ref>
''[[Red at the Bone]]'' (2019), a novel, weaves together stories of three generations of one Black family, including the trauma resulting from the [[Tulsa race massacre|Tulsa Race Massacre]] and the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Jacqueline Woodson - MacArthur Foundation|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1074/|access-date=2020-10-09|website=www.macfound.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Chow |first=Kat |date=2019-09-19 |title=Jacqueline Woodson Transformed Children's Literature. Now She's Writing for Herself. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/magazine/jacqueline-woodson-red-at-the-bone.html |access-date=2023-11-02 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
===Economic status=== ''[[The Dear One]]'' is notable for dealing with the differences between rich and poor within the black community.<ref name=CAO/>
===Sexual identity=== ''The House You Pass on the Way'' is a novel that touches on gay identity through the main characters of Staggerlee.<ref name=rochman/> {{blockquote|Staggerlee knows who she is for the most part, but her friend Trout is struggling, conforming, trying to fit in somewhere. I wish I had had this book when I was a kid and trying to fit in while being a tomboy and so unfeminine.<ref name=rochman/>}}
In ''The Dear One'' Woodson introduces a strongly committed lesbian relationship between Marion and Bernadette. She then contrasts it to the broken straight family that results in a teenager from Harlem named Rebecca moving in with them and their 12-year-old daughter, Feni.<ref name=CAO/>
==Critical response== ''Last Summer with Maizon'', Woodson's first book, was praised by critics for creating positive female characters and the touching portrayal of the close eleven-year-old friends. Reviewers also commented on its convincing sense of place and vivid character relationships. The next two books in the trilogy, ''Maizon at Blue Hill'' and ''Between Madison and Palmetto'', were also well received for their realistic characters and strong writing style. The issues of self-esteem and identity are addressed throughout the three books.<ref name=CAO/> A few reviewers felt that there was a slight lack of focus as the trilogy touched lightly and quickly on too many different problems in too few pages.
Announcing her as recipient of the ALA [[Margaret A. Edwards Award]] in 2006, the citation of the panel of librarians chair stated: "Woodson's books are powerful, groundbreaking and very personal explorations of the many ways in which identity and friendship transcend the limits of stereotype."<ref>[http://www.ala.org/news/news/pressreleases2006/january2006/edwards06 "Woodson honored for lifetime contribution to young adult readers with Edwards Award"], American Library Association (ALA), January 23, 2006.</ref>
In October 2020, Woodson won a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]], commonly known as a "Genius Grant."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Jacobs|first=Julia|date=2020-10-06|title=MacArthur Foundation Announces 21 'Genius' Grant Winners|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-2020.html|access-date=2020-10-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The MacArthur Foundation recognized her for "redefining children’s and young adult literature in works that reflect the complexity and diversity of the world we live in while stretching young readers’ intellectual abilities and capacity for empathy." Her books "evoke the hopefulness and power of human connection even as they tackle difficult issues."<ref name=":0" /> She has stated that she plans to use the grant money to expand Baldwin for the Arts, the residency program for people of color she founded.<ref>{{Cite web|title=3 LGBTQ trailblazers among 2020 MacArthur 'genius grant' winners|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/3-lgbtq-trailblazers-among-2020-macarthur-genius-grant-winners-n1242610|access-date=2020-10-09|website=NBC News|date=October 8, 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
==Censorship== Some of the topics covered in Woodson's books raise flags for many censors. Homosexuality, child abuse, harsh language and other content have led to issues with censorship. In an interview on [[NPR]] Woodson said that she uses very few curse words in her books and that the issues adults have with her subject matter say more about what they are uncomfortable with than it does what their students should be thinking about. She suggests that people look at the various outside influences teens have access to today, then compare that to the subject matter in her books.<ref name=NPR/>
==Personal life== Woodson lives in [[Park Slope]], [[Brooklyn]], with her partner Juliet Widoff, a physician. The couple have two children, a daughter and a son.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bkmag.com/2015/09/28/i-believe-in-brooklyn-at-home-with-jacqueline-woodson/|title="I Believe in Brooklyn": At Home with Jacqueline Woodson |first=Molly|last= McArdle|date=September 28, 2015|work=Brooklyn Magazine |access-date=March 24, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Awards and honors == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *1995 [[Coretta Scott King Award|Coretta Scott King Honor]] for ''I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This'' *1996 [[Coretta Scott King Award|Coretta Scott King Honor]] for ''From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun'' *2001 [[Coretta Scott King Award]] for ''Miracle's Boys''<ref name=":0a">{{Cite web|title = Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970–Present - Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT)|url = http://www.ala.org/emiert/coretta-scott-king-book-awards-all-recipients-1970-present|website = www.ala.org|date = April 5, 2012|access-date = November 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = 2015 Newbery, Caldecott and Printz awards announced|url = https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-2015-newbery-caldecott-and-printz-awards-announced-20150202-story.html|first=Carolyn|last=Kellogg|website = [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=February 2, 2015|access-date = October 10, 2015}}</ref> *[[ALA Best Book for Young Adults]] in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2005<ref>{{Cite web|title = Best Books for Young Adults Annotated List 2004 {{!}} Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|url = http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklists/bestbooksya/annotations/2004bestbooks|website = www.ala.org|date = July 30, 2007|access-date = November 7, 2015}}</ref> *2004 [[Coretta Scott King Award|Coretta Scott King Honor]] for ''Locomotion'' *2005 [[YALSA]] Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers for ''Behind You''<ref>{{Cite web|title = 2005 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers {{!}} Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|url = http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklists/quickpicks/annotations/05quickpicks|website = www.ala.org|date = July 30, 2007|access-date = November 7, 2015}}</ref> *2006 [[Margaret A. Edwards Award]]<ref name=edwards/> *2006 [[Newbery Honor]] for ''[[Show Way]]'' *2008 [[Newbery Honor]] for ''[[Feathers (novel)|Feathers]]'' *2009 [[Newbery Honor]] for ''After Tupac and D Foster''<ref>{{Cite web|title = Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present |publisher=Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)|url = http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal|access-date = November 7, 2015}}</ref> *2009 [[Josette Frank Award]] for ''After Tupac and D Foster'' *2009 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards for ''Peace Locomotion'' *2009 Keystone to Reading Book Award for ''Peace Locomotion'' *2013 [[Coretta Scott King Award|Coretta Scott King Honor]] for ''Each Kindness'' *2013 [[Jane Addams Children's Book Award]] - Book for Younger Children for ''Each Kindness'' *2014 [[Hans Christian Andersen Award]], U.S. nominee *2014 [[National Book Award]] in [[National Book Award for Young People's Literature|Young People's Literature]] for ''Brown Girl Dreaming'' *2015 [[Coretta Scott King Award]] for ''Brown Girl Dreaming'' *2015 Young People's Poet Laureate by the [[Poetry Foundation]]<ref>{{Cite web|title =Jacqueline Woodson Named Young People's Poet Laureate |publisher=The Poetry Foundation|url = https://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/press/71807/jacqueline-woodson-named-young-peoples-poet-laureate|date=June 3, 2015|access-date = November 7, 2015}}</ref> *2015 [[Langston Hughes Medal]],<ref>{{Cite web|title = Author Jacqueline Woodson receives 2015 Langston Hughes Medal |date=November 2, 2015 |publisher=The City College of New York |url = https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/author-jacqueline-woodson-receives-2015-langston-hughes-medal|access-date = October 8, 2020}}</ref> [[The City College of New York]] *2015 [[Newbery Honor]] for ''[[Brown Girl Dreaming]]'' *2015 [[NAACP Image Award]] for Outstanding Literary Work In Youth/Teens Fiction for ''Brown Girl Dreaming'' *2015 [[Sibert Medal|Robert F. Sibert Honor]] for ''Brown Girl Dreaming'' *2016 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at [[Adelphi University]]<ref>[https://www.adelphi.edu/news/jacqueline-woodson/ "Jacqueline Woodson | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Adelphi University"], Adelphi University, April 1, 2016.</ref> *2017 [[May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture|May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture]] at the [[American Library Association]], recognizes significant contribution to children's literature.<ref>Hetter, Katia, [http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/11/living/newbery-caldecott-youth-media-awards-2016-feat/index.html 2016 "Newbery, Caldecott awards honor best children's books"], CNN, January 11, 2016.</ref> *2017 [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction|NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work In Fiction]] for ''Another Brooklyn'' *2018–19 [[National Ambassador for Young People's Literature]] for the [[Library of Congress]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/books/jacqueline-woodson-is-named-national-ambassador-for-young-peoples-literature.html?_r=0|title=Jacqueline Woodson is Named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature|work= New York Times|first=Alexandra |last=Alter|date=January 4, 2018|access-date=January 4, 2018}}</ref> *2018 [[Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award]] *2018 [[Children's Literature Legacy Award]] *2019 [[NAACP Image Award]] for Outstanding Literary Work In Youth/Teens for ''Harbor Me'' *2019 [[Jane Addams Children's Book Award]] - Book for Younger Children for ''The Day You Begin'' *2019 [[Goodreads Choice Award|Goodread's Choice Award Best Fiction]] Nomination for ''[[Red at the Bone]]''<ref name="Goodreads Choice Award 2019">{{cite web |title=2019 Goodreads Choice Award Best Fiction |url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-fiction-books-2019 |website=Goodreads |publisher=Goodreads, Inc |access-date=2 June 2020}}</ref> *2020 [[Hans Christian Andersen Award]], winner<ref>{{cite news |title=Woodson, Albertine win 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/05/12/150339/woodson-albertine-win-2020-hans-christian-andersen-award/ |access-date=2020-05-12 |publisher=Books+Publishing |date=2020-05-12}}</ref> *2020 [[MacArthur Fellows Program]] Grant Award, winner {{div col end}}
==Complete works==
===Adult novels=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''[[Autobiography of a Family Photo]]'' (1995) * ''[[Another Brooklyn]]'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|title = Another Brooklyn A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson |url = https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062359988/another-brooklyn |publisher=HarperCollins|date = October 21, 2017}}</ref> * ''[[Red at the Bone]]'' (2019)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/570344/red-at-the-bone-by-jacqueline-woodson/9780525535270/ |title=Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson |website=[[Penguin Random House]] |access-date=September 22, 2019}}</ref> * ''Remember Us'' (2023) ({{ISBN|978-0-399-54546-7}}) {{div col end}}
=== Middle grade titles === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Last Summer with Maizon'' (1990) * ''Maizon at Blue Hill'' (1992) * ''Between Madison and Palmetto'' (1993) * ''[[Feathers (novel)|Feathers]]'' (2007) * ''[[After Tupac and D Foster]]'' (2008) * ''Peace Locomotion'' (2009) * ''Locomotion'' (2010), verse novel * ''[[Brown Girl Dreaming]]'' (2014), verse novel * ''Harbor Me'' (2018) * ''[[Before the Ever After]]'' (2020) {{div col end}}
=== Young adult titles === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Dear One'' (1990) * ''[[I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This]]'' (1994) * ''From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun'' (1995) * ''The House You Pass on the Way'' (1997) * ''If You Come Softly'' (1998) * ''Lena'' (1999) * ''[[Miracle's Boys (novel)|Miracle's Boys]]'' (2000) * ''Hush'' (2002) * ''Behind You'' (2004) * ''Beneath a Meth Moon'' (2012) * ''The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves'' (2012) (Contributor) {{div col end}}
=== Illustrated works === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Birthday'' (nonfiction), illus. Floyd Cooper (1990) * ''Book Chase'', illus. Steve Cieslawski (1994) * ''We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past'', illus. Diane Greenseid (1997) * ''Sweet, Sweet Memory'', illus. Floyd Cooper (2000) * ''[[The Other Side (children's book)|The Other Side]]'', illus. [[E. B. Lewis (illustrator)|E. B. Lewis]] (2001) * ''Visiting Day'', illus. [[James Ransome (illustrator)|James Ransome]] (2002) * ''Our Gracie Aunt'', illus. [[Jon J. Muth]] (2002) * ''Coming on Home Soon'', illus. [[E. B. Lewis (illustrator)|E. B. Lewis]] (2003) * ''[[Show Way]]'', illus. [[Hudson Talbott]] (2006) * ''Pecan Pie Baby'', illus. [[Sophie Blackall]] (2010) * ''[[Each Kindness]]'', illus. [[E. B. Lewis (illustrator)|E. B. Lewis]] (2012) * ''This Is the Rope,'' illus. [[James Ransome (illustrator)|James Ransome]] (2013) * ''[[The Day You Begin]]'', illus. [[Rafael López (illustrator and artist)|Rafael López]] (2018) * ''[[The Year We Learned to Fly]]'', illus. [[Rafael López (illustrator and artist)|Rafael López]] (2022) * ''The World Belonged To Us'', illus by Leo Espinosa (2022){{div col end}}
==Adaptations== ===Film=== Filmmaker [[Spike Lee]] and others made ''Miracle's Boys'' into a [[Miracle's Boys|miniseries]], airing in 2005.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414751/ "Miracle's Boys | TV Mini-Series (2005– )"] at IMDb.</ref>
===Audio recordings=== *''I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This'', [[Recorded Books]], 1999 *''Lena'', Recorded Books, 1999 *''Miracle's Boys'', [[Listening Library]], 2001 *''Locomotion'', Recorded Books, 2003 * ''Show Way'', Weston Woods, 2012 * ''Brown Girl Dreaming'', Penguin Audio, 2014 * ''If You Come Softly'', Listening Library, 2018 * ''Harbor Me'', Listening Library, 2018 * ''The Day You Begin'', Listening Library, 2018 * ''Visiting Day'', Listening Library, 2018 * ''Before Her'', part of "The One" series, Brilliance Publishing, 2019 * ''Red at the Bone'', Penguin Audio, 2019
==See also== {{Portal|Children's literature|LGBTQ}} * [[List of winners of the National Book Award]]
==References== {{Reflist |30em |refs=
<ref name=edwards> [http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/margaretaedwards/maeprevious/06 "2006 Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner"]. [[Young Adult Library Services Association]] (YALSA). American Library Association (ALA).<br> [http://www.ala.org/yalsa/edwards-award "Edwards Award"]. YALSA. ALA. Retrieved October 10, 2013.</ref> }}
==External links== {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote|Jacqueline Woodson}} * {{Official website|www.jacquelinewoodson.com}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907073823/http://glbtq.com/literature/woodson_j.html Jacqueline Woodson] at [[glbtq.com]] * ''[[q:If You Come Softly|If You Come Softly]]'' at [[Wikiquote]] * [https://archive.today/20121215114921/http://digital.lib.usf.edu/?u29.70-w39-ead Jacqueline Woodson Papers] at the [[University of South Florida]] * [http://lccn.loc.gov/n88234700 Jacqueline Woodson] at [[Library of Congress]] Authorities — with 43 catalog records *{{C-SPAN|83930}}
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