NPR: jacqueline woodson https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=367742352 jacqueline woodson en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Thu, 22 May 2025 13:50:04 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: jacqueline woodson https://www.npr.org/tags/367742352/jacqueline-woodson These Are The 2016 National Book Award Finalists Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson and Rita Dove are just three of the authors on the shortlists for the National Book Awards. The 20 books still in contention for the prizes were unveiled Thursday. Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:31:01 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/06/496760469/these-are-the-2016-national-book-award-finalists https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/06/496760469/these-are-the-2016-national-book-award-finalists

Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson and Rita Dove are just three of the authors on the shortlists for the National Book Awards. The 20 books still in contention for the prizes were unveiled Thursday.

]]> Colin Dwyer Colson Whitehead, John Lewis, Rita Dove Among National Book Award Nominees And then there were 40: This week, the National Book Foundation revealed the writers who are still in contention for its literary prize. It capped the rollout Thursday with the fiction nominees. Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:32:00 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/15/493918569/colson-whitehead-john-lewis-rita-dove-among-national-book-award-nominees https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/15/493918569/colson-whitehead-john-lewis-rita-dove-among-national-book-award-nominees

And then there were 40: This week, the National Book Foundation revealed the writers who are still in contention for its literary prize. It capped the rollout Thursday with the fiction nominees.

]]> Colin Dwyer Thinking Of Leaving Home? Here's A Bit Of Advice From Young Adult Authors Starting that next chapter can be difficult in any young person's life. And YA writers know it well. Sandra Cisneros, Jacqueline Woodson, Tamora Pierce and Jason Reynolds offer some words of wisdom. Sat, 10 Sep 2016 06:01:00 -0400 https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/10/491187839/thinking-of-leaving-home-heres-a-bit-of-advice-from-young-adult-authors https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/09/10/491187839/thinking-of-leaving-home-heres-a-bit-of-advice-from-young-adult-authors

Starting that next chapter can be difficult in any young person's life. And YA writers know it well. Sandra Cisneros, Jacqueline Woodson, Tamora Pierce and Jason Reynolds offer some words of wisdom.

]]> Ravenna Koenig Book News: Jacqueline Woodson Addresses Lemony Snicket's Watermelon Joke "His historical context, unlike my own, came from a place of ignorance," writes the National Book Award-winning Woodson, responding to racially charged comments delivered after she won her prize. Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:13:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/01/367742195/book-news-jacqueline-woodson-addresses-lemony-snickets-watermelon-joke https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/01/367742195/book-news-jacqueline-woodson-addresses-lemony-snickets-watermelon-joke "His historical context, unlike my own, came from a place of ignorance," writes the National Book Award-winning Woodson, responding to racially charged comments delivered after she won her prize.

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