Jacqueline Woodson
Autore di Brown Girl Dreaming
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Serie
Opere di Jacqueline Woodson
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — A cura di — 33 copie, 2 recensioni
Woodson, Jacqueline Archive 1 copia
Opere correlate
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (2018) — Collaboratore — 389 copie, 30 recensioni
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Collaboratore — 320 copie, 6 recensioni
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves (2012) — Collaboratore — 265 copie, 5 recensioni
Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (1990) — Collaboratore — 253 copie, 1 recensione
How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity (2009) — Collaboratore — 216 copie, 8 recensioni
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Collaboratore — 190 copie, 4 recensioni
Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade (1998) — Collaboratore — 188 copie, 2 recensioni
Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday (2004) — Collaboratore — 165 copie, 3 recensioni
How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation (2018) — Collaboratore — 164 copie, 3 recensioni
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation (2017) — Collaboratore — 127 copie, 4 recensioni
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Collaboratore — 120 copie, 1 recensione
The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope (2001) — Collaboratore — 89 copie, 6 recensioni
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Collaboratore — 87 copie
No Such Thing as the Real World: Stories about Growing Up and Getting a Life (2009) — Collaboratore — 70 copie, 4 recensioni
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Collaboratore — 32 copie, 1 recensione
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Woodson, Jacqueline Amanda
- Data di nascita
- 1963-02-12
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Nicholtown, South Carolina, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Howard University (B.A., English)
- Attività lavorative
- author (children's books)
lecturer
professor - Organizzazioni
- MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, Vermont College (founding faculty)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) (mostra tutto 9)
MacArthur Fellowship (2020)
Coretta Scott King Award (Author | 2021)
New York State Author (2023)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Black Authors (1)
GAL Book Club (1)
6th Grade (1)
Facebook list (1)
The Zora Canon (1)
Five in a Row (1)
Zora Canon (1)
Back to School (1)
African American (1)
4th Grade Books (1)
Indie Next Picks (2)
Newbery Adjacent (2)
Which house? (1)
To Read (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 47
- Opere correlate
- 31
- Utenti
- 30,811
- Popolarità
- #645
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 3,029
- ISBN
- 604
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 17