![]() She has written a novel for adults: Autobiography of a Family Photo. Some of her other young adult titles are The Dear One, If You Come Softly, The House You Pass on the Way, Locomotion, Miracle’s Boys, and Behind You. Others in the trilogy are Maizon at Blue Hill and Between Madison and Palmetto. Her first published book, Last Summer with Maizon, is the first of a trilogy for young adults. Some of her children’s books are We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past, The Other Side, Our Gracie Aunt and Coming On Home Soon. She states that she “feels compelled to write against stereotypes, hoping people will see that some issues know no color, class, sexuality.” Most of Woodson’s books are for children and young adults. She sees her characters as struggling to find their own individuality, seeking their own value as people. She describes them as the people “who exist on the margins.” As an African-American woman and a lesbian, she writes from firsthand experience. She writes largely about people who are forgotten or who are on the fringes in mainstream America: the poor, minorities, homosexuals, young girls. She was the literary editor of her school’s magazine in the fifth grade and has been writing ever since. Writing has been a passion for Woodson since childhood. ![]() in English from Adelphia University in 1985, and also studied at the New School for Social Research. She grew up in Greenville, South Carolina and Brooklyn, New York. ![]() ![]() Jacqueline Woodson was born in 1964 in Columbus, Ohio. ![]()
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