Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson

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in Columbus, Ohio, The United States
February 12, 1963

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I used to say I’d be a teacher or a lawyer or a hairdresser when I grew up but even as I said these things, I knew what made me happiest was writing.

I wrote on everything and everywhere. I remember my uncle catching me writing my name in graffiti on the side of a building. (It was not pretty for me when my mother found out.) I wrote on paper bags and my shoes and denim binders. I chalked stories across sidewalks and penciled tiny tales in notebook margins. I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

I also told a lot of stories as a child. Not “Once upon a time” stories but basically, outright lies. I loved lying and getting away with it! There was something about telling the lie-story and...more


Average rating: 3.83 · 23,629 ratings · 4,513 reviews · 52 distinct works · Similar authors
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February 2012, Jacqueline Woodson
"Her Favorite Books About Real Teen Problems: Trade vampires for these true-to-life recs from the author of Beneath a Meth Moon, a young adult novel about a Katrina refugee." ...More

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“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”
Jacqueline Woodson, The Dear One

“I wouldn't mind the early autumn
if you came home today
I'd tell you how much I miss you
and know I'd be okay.

It's funny how we never know
exactly how our life will go
It's funny how a dream can fade
with the break of day.

Time can't erase the memory
and time can't bring you home
Last Summer was a part of me
and now a part is gone.

—Margaret”
Jacqueline Woodson, Last Summer With Maizon

“Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.”
Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly

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