Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1963. She has published more than twenty children's and young adult books, and in 2014 she was awarded the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for "Brown Girl Dreaming." In 2018, she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the most prestigious international award for young people's literature. She was also recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. "Another Brooklyn" is her first adult novel and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2016.