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Learn more about Jacqueline Woodson's life, writing, and activities as National Ambassador through these Library of Congress resources and services.
Jacqueline Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, the NAACP Image Award, and Newbery and Sibert Honors. In 2015, Woodson was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Woodson’s most recent adult novel, Red at the Bone, is a New York Times bestseller and was named a New York Times Book of the Year in 2019. She is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children. Among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Book Award winner.
The following Library of Congress news releases provide more information about Jacqueline Woodson's activities as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
Blog posts about Jacqueline Woodson, including posts about her activities as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, appear below.
The Library of Congress website hosts a number of webcasts, podcasts, and other video featuring Jacqueline Woodson. These are listed below.
The Library of Congress holds a number of books by Jacqueline Woodson in its physical collections. A selected bibliography of books by Jacqueline Woodson held in the Library of Congress's general collections follows below. Additional copies of books by Jacqueline Woodson are held in the Library's Young Readers Center.
You can identify additional materials about or by searching the Library of Congress Online Catalog using the following headings:
The Library's subscription databases, available only to on-campus users, include many articles, interviews, essays, and literary criticism related to Woodson's life and work. If you need assistance locating resources related to Jacqueline Woodson in these databases or in our physical collections, please contact us using our Ask a Librarian service.
The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to online content are included when available.
The Year We Learned to Fly by 
Brown Girl Dreaming by 
After Tupac and d Foster by 
We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past by 
The House You Pass on the Way by 
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by 
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by 
Between Madison and Palmetto by If you would like to contact Jacqueline Woodson, please direct your inquiries as suggested below:
