Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning writer of books for children and young adults. She is known for Miracle’s Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her recent books include Harbor Me, The Day You Begin, and Red at the Bone. For her lifetime contribution as a children’s writer, Woodson won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2005. She won the National Book Award in 2014 in the category of Young People’s Literature for Brown Girl Dreaming, and was nominated in Fiction for Another Brooklyn. She is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of a 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award.

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