Ms.
Jacqueline Woodson
Independent
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2025
Jacqueline Woodson is writer of books for adults, children, and adolescents. She is best known for her National Book Award-Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming. Her novels for adults include National Book Award Finalist, Another Brooklyn, and Red At The Bone. Woodson's picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers.
After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–19. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. Later that same year, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
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