Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer specializing in books for children and young adolescents. She is best known for her novel Miracle's Boys and has received multiple Newbery Honors for titles including Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Woodson has held several prestigious literary positions and received major awards throughout her career. She served as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017 and was subsequently 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. Her contributions to literature have been recognized internationally. She accepted the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2020. In 2020, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Books by Jacqueline Woodson

• Autobiography of a Family Photo (1995)
• Another Brooklyn (2016)
• If You Come Softly (1998)
• Hush (2002)
• Red at the Bone (2019)
• Miracle's Boys (2000)
• Lena (1999)
• I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (1994)
• The Dear One (1991)
• Last Summer with Maizon (1990)
• Maizon at Blue Hill (1992)
• From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (1995)
• Between Madison and Palmetto (1993)
• Beneath a Meth Moon (2012)
• The House You Pass on the Way (1997)
• Remember Us (2023)
• Behind You (2004)
• Before the Ever After (2020)
• This Is the Rope (2013)
• Pecan Pie Baby (2010)
• Feathers (2007)
• Peace, Locomotion (2009)
• Coming on Home Soon (2004)
• Visiting Day (2002)
• The Other Side (2001)
• A Way Out of No Way (1996)
• The Year We Learned to Fly (2022)
• Harbour Me (2023)
• The World Belonged to Us (2022)
• Harbor Me (2018)
• Brown Girl Dreaming (2015)
• Locomotion (2004)
• After Tupac and D Foster (2008)
• Show Way (2005)