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    Fun Facts About Me

    I can only write with my notebook turned sideways. When I was a kid, I wrote with it turned upside down.

    I write, catch, and eat with my right hand. Everything else – batting, shooting a basket, holding a golf club, etc. is done with my left.

    I can shake my eyeballs in bright light.

    I have a long, long list of foods I don’t like. (I guess this isn’t really a ‘fun’ fact!)

    I am very, very neat. Except when I am not.

    I know the lyrics to about a thousand bad songs from the 1970s, including songs from tv commercials and television shows.

    I have a lot of my writing memorized so that I don’t have to carry my books everywhere.

    I once wrote a book in two weeks and it only needed a little revision.

    The next book I wrote took four years.

    I have only lost at checkers once or twice. I have only won at Chess once.

    I can jump double-dutch.

    Even though I can walk to a Brooklyn Nets game from my house, I’m still a die-hard Kni

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    Jacqueline Woodson

    Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline Woodson grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She now writes full-time and has recently received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. Her other awards include a Newbery Honor, two Coretta Scott King awards, two National Book Award finalists, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

    Although she spends most of her time writing, Woodson also enjoys reading the works of emerging writers and encouraging young people to write, spending time with her friends and her family, and sewing. Jacqueline Woodson currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

    In 2018, Woodson was inaugurated as the sixth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress. During her tenure (2018-2019), Woodson will travel nationwide over the course of her two-year term promoting her platform, READING = HOPE x C

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    Jacqueline Woodson

    American writer (born 1963)

    Jacqueline Woodson (born February 12, 1963) fryst vatten an American writer of books for children and adolescents. She is best known for Miracle's Boys, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. After serving as the ung People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017,[1] she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, bygd the Library of församling, for 2018 to 2019. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction.[2] She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018.[3] She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.[4]

    Early years

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    Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio, and lived in Nelsonville, Ohio, before her family moved south.[5] During her early years she lived in Greenville, South Carolina, before moving to Brooklyn at about the age of sju.