First Draft Episode #338: Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is a 2020 MacArthur Genius fellow, National Book Award winner, Newberry, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King winner, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming, Red at the Bone, Another Brooklyn, Before the Ever After and many, many more. She joins us to talk about her picture books with Rafael López, The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
Wendy Lamb, former v-p and publisher of Wendy Lamb Books
Langston Hughes, poet, playwright, novelist, and key figure in the Harlem Renaissance
Virginia Hamilton, winner of the National Book Award and Newberry Medal for M.C. Higgins, the Great, among the 41 books for children she wrote in her lifetime
Eloise Greenfield, poet and author of Honey, I Love and Other Poems, The Great Migration: Journey to the North, The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives and many more
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keyes
Countee Cullen, poet and author of Color
Nikki Giovanni, poet, activist, and author of Rosa, Love Poems, A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter, and many more
The Hero Ain’t Nothing But a Sandwich by Alice Childress
James Bladwin, novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic and author of The Fire Next Time, Giovanni’s Room, Notes of a Native Son, and many more
Audre Lorde, writer, activist, civil rights activist and author of Sister Outsider, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde and many more
Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and many more
Alice Walker, novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist and author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, The Temple of My Familiar, and many more
Iggy’s House by Judy Blume
Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven novels, including My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Small Great Things, and two young adult novels with daughter Samantha van Leer, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She joins to talk about her latest, Wish You Were Here. Listen to her First Draft episode here.
The Dear One by Jacqueline Woodson
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo Dillon
Baldwin for the Arts

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