Jacqueline Woodson - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	12-February-1963
Place of Birth	Columbus (Ohio, United States of America, Area code 614)
Nationality	United States of America
Profession	Author, Writer, Novelist
Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 and her Newbery Honor titles After Tupac & D Foster, Feathers and Show Way. Her work is filled with strong African-American themes, generally aimed at a young adult audience. She is an open lesbian with a lifelong partner and two children, a daughter named Toshi Georgianna and a son named Jackson-Leroi. For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, Woodson won the Margaret Edwards Award in 2005 and she is U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014. IBBY named her one of six Andersen Award finalists on March 17, 2014.

Awards by Jacqueline Woodson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jacqueline Woodson.

2009

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : After Tupac and D Foster

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	After Tupac and D Foster

2008

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Feathers

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	Feathers

2006

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : Show Way

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal	Show Way

2005

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Locomotion 5 up

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Hush 6 up
GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Article	Motherhood My Way Essence

2003

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature	Locomotion

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature	Hush
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award	Miracle's Boys

2001

Coretta Scott King Award for Authors

Honored for : Miracle's Boys

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	Miracle's Boys

1997

Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Honored for : The House You Pass on the Way

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult	The House You Pass on the Way

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children	From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

1995

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction

Honored for : Autobiography of a Family Photo

Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult

Honored for : From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children	I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
Lambda Literary Award for Children's/Young Adult	From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction	Autobiography of a Family Photo

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