Jacqueline Woodson was born on February 12, 1963 in Columbus, Ohio.
"I wrote on everything and everywhere. I remember my uncle catching me writing my name in graffiti on the side of a building. (It was not pretty for me when my mother found out.) I wrote on paper bags and my shoes and denim binders. I chalked stories across sidewalks and penciled tiny tales in notebook margins. I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. "
Jacqueline was raised and educated in Greenville, South Coralina and Brooklyn New York. Woodson guaduated with a G.A in English and worked in New York as a drama therapist. Now, she is a full time writer at New York City, writing multiple books about challenges the young people in the world are facing. She is well known as a young adult fiction writer.
"I wrote on everything and everywhere. I remember my uncle catching me writing my name in graffiti on the side of a building. (It was not pretty for me when my mother found out.) I wrote on paper bags and my shoes and denim binders. I chalked stories across sidewalks and penciled tiny tales in notebook margins. I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. "
Jacqueline was raised and educated in Greenville, South Coralina and Brooklyn New York. Woodson guaduated with a G.A in English and worked in New York as a drama therapist. Now, she is a full time writer at New York City, writing multiple books about challenges the young people in the world are facing. She is well known as a young adult fiction writer.
Jacqueline wrote many books including Hush, If You Come Softly, Locomotion, and Show Way. She has accepted three Newbery honors, two National Book award, Coretta Schott King award, and many other awards including the Jane Addams Children's Book awards in 1995. Miracle Boys written by her was even created into a mini-series directed by Spike Lee.
She has written thirteen books and the list will keep going as she continues to write for the yound adults in America and possibly the world. Jacqueline will also continue to be a honored writer that moved the whole nation.
By: Michelle Xia
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