Awards & Winners

Jacqueline Woodson

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

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John Newbery Medal After Tupac and D Foster

2008


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Feathers

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John Newbery Medal Feathers

2006


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Show Way

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John Newbery Medal Show Way

2005


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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Locomotion
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2004


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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Hush
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GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Article Motherhood My Way
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2003


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National Book Award for Young People's Literature Locomotion

2002


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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

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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

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

1996


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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