Times Book Prize and was adapted into a miniseries directed by Spike Lee. Her books include The Other Side, Each Kindness, Beneath a Meth Moon, which is currently being adapted for the screen by Jonathan Demme, the Caldecott Honor Book Coming On Home Soon, Feathers, and Miracle’s Boys, which received the L.A. Woodson, who was born in Columbus but grew up in Greenvile, NC, loves speaking to groups of all types””from students to educators to book lovers””and gives stirring and interactive lectures that explore the history and inspiration behind her books and her own journey to becoming an award-winning author. The author of more than two dozen books for young readers, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a recipient of the NAACP Image Award, a three-time National Book Award finalist, a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and was recently named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Jacqueline Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her New York Times bestselling memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming.
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