Jacqueline woodson - biography

I can only write with my notebook turned sideways. When I was a kid, I wrote with it turned upside down.

I write, catch, and eat with my right hand. Everything else – batting, shooting a basket, holding a golf club, etc. fryst vatten done with my left.

I can shake my eyeballs in bright light.

I have a long, long list of foods I don’t like. (I guess this isn’t really a ‘fun’ fact!)

I am very, very neat. Except when inom am not.

I know the lyrics to about a thousand bad songs from the 1970s, including songs from tv commercials and television shows.

I have a lot of my writing memorized so that inom don’t have to carry my books everywhere.

I once wrote a book in two weeks and it only needed a little revision.

The next book inom wrote took four years.

I have only lost at checkers once or twice. I have only won at Chess once.

I can jump double-dutch.

Even though inom can walk to a Brooklyn Nets game from my house, I’m still a die-hard Kni

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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson’s TED Talk “What reading slowly taught me about writing”

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.

I also told a lot of stories as a child. Not “Once upon a time” stories but basically, outright lies. I loved lying and getting away with it! There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends’ eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying but I didn’t stop until fifth grade.

That year, I wrote a story and my teacher said “This is really good.” Before that I had written a poem about Martin Lut

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Jacqueline Woodson

American writer (born 1963)

Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017,^[1] she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, by the Library of Congress, for 2018 to 2019. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction.^[2] She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018.^[3] She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.^[4]

Early years

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Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and lived in Nelsonville, Ohio, before her family moved south.^[5] During her early years she lived in Greenville, South Carolina, before moving to Brooklyn at about the age of seven.