Jacqueline Woodson is an acclaimed American writer of books for children and adolescents. Born on February 12, 1963, she is best known for her works Miracle's Boys and her Newbery Honor-winning titles Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. From 2015 to 2017, she served as the Young People's Poet Laureate. In 2018, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress. Her novel Another Brooklyn was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. She won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2018 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2020.