Harbor Me

About Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2018 Childrens Literature Legacy Award. She was the 20182019 National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature and in 2015 she was named the Young Peoples Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award a Newbery Honor the NAACP Image Award and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone a New York Times bestseller and Another Brooklyn a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus Ohio Jacqueline grew up in Greenville South Carolina and Brooklyn New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults middle graders and children; among her many accolades she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner a four-time National Book Award finalist and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side Each Kindness Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers Show Way and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle's Boys which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn New York.