Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodsonis an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best 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 & D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth12 February 1963
CountryUnited States of America
dream people library
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.
became hope
I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.
bigger few form hardest letters work
The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.
alone isolated scary
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
bored either grade middle move
I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.