Jacqueline Woodson
Forfatter af Brown Girl Dreaming
Om forfatteren
Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio on February 12, 1963. She received a B.A. in English from Adelphi University in 1985. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a drama therapist for runaways and homeless children in New York City. Her books include The House You Pass on the vis mere Way, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Lena, and The Day You Begin. She won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 for Miracle's Boys. After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way won Newbery Honors. Brown Girl Dreaming won the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award in 2015. Her other awards include the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She was also selected as the Young People's Poet Laureate in 2015 by the Poetry Foundation. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Woodson at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival By Fuzheado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72310421
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Værker af Jacqueline Woodson
The Jacqueline Woodson Collection 1 eksemplar
Woodson, Jacqueline Archive 1 eksemplar
Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Birthday 1 eksemplar
IL PRIMO GIORNO 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (2018) — Bidragyder — 354 eksemplarer
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Bidragyder — 314 eksemplarer
Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (1990) — Bidragyder — 244 eksemplarer
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Bidragyder — 165 eksemplarer
Women on Women 2: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (1993) — Bidragyder — 120 eksemplarer
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Bidragyder — 118 eksemplarer
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Bidragyder — 88 eksemplarer
No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories about Growing Up and Getting a Life (2009) — Bidragyder — 71 eksemplarer
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Woodson, Jacqueline Amanda
- Fødselsdato
- 1963-02-12
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Bopæl
- Nicholtown, South Carolina, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Uddannelse
- Howard University (B.A., English)
- Erhverv
- author (children's books)
lecturer
professor - Organisationer
- MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, Vermont College (founding faculty)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Coretta Scott King Award (2001)
Margaret A. Edwards Award (2006)
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2014)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2017)
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2018-2019)
Children's Literature Legacy Award (2018) (vis alle 9)
MacArthur Fellowship (2020)
Coretta Scott King Award (Author | 2021)
New York State Author (2023)
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- Popularitet
- #686
- Vurdering
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- ISBN
- 598
- Sprog
- 10
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- Trædesten
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By turns, it's joyful, poignant, scary, heartbreaking, and hopeful, while being as altogether beautiful as the spot-on imagery depicting father-son love on the book cover.
I'm quite an American football fan, highly enjoyed the days when one of my family members played, and I've been watching the rule changes and new protocol coming to the game in recent years.
This book is a deftly resounding reminder of what the changes are for.… (mere)