Jacqueline Woodson
Auteur van Brown Girl Dreaming
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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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: Woodson at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival By Fuzheado - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72310421
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- Woodson, Jacqueline Amanda
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- 1963-02-12
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- Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Nicholtown, South Carolina, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Howard University (B.A., English)
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- MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, Vermont College (founding faculty)
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- 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) (toon alle 9)
MacArthur Fellowship (2020)
Coretta Scott King Award (Author | 2021)
New York State Author (2023)
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By turns, it's joyful, poignant, scary, heartbreaking, and hopeful, while being as altogether beautiful as the spot-on imagery depicting father-son love on the book cover.
I'm quite an American football fan, highly enjoyed the days when one of my family members played, and I've been watching the rule changes and new protocol coming to the game in recent years.
This book is a deftly resounding reminder of what the changes are for.… (meer)