Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books for children, including Sweet, Sweet Memory, We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past and The Other Side. Her novels for young adults include Coretta Scott King Award winner Miracle's Boys and Coretta Scott King Honor Books I Hadn't Meant To Tell You This and From The Notebooks of Melanin Sun. Other awards include The Jane Addams Peace Award for Social Justice, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Parenting Magazine Best Book Award. Her most recent book is Hush. Jacqueline grew up in South Carolina and in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, NY.