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Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

ジャクリーン・ウッドソン

Jacqueline Woodson

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1963-02-12 （Columbus, Ohio, U.S.）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Columbus, Ohio → Nelsonville, Ohio → Greenville, South Carolina → Brooklyn, New York → Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York (current)

経歴

職業
Writer, Author of children's and young adult literature
活動期間
1990年〜2025年
影響を受けた人物
James Baldwin, Virginia Hamilton, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Rosa Guy, Louise Meriwether, High-school English teacher (Mr. Miller)
影響を与えた人物
An Na

学歴

Adelphi University
国: United States
The New School
国: United States
Took children's book writing class (Bunny Gable)

受賞歴

National Book Award (Young People's Literature)
2014
対象作品: Brown Girl Dreaming
部門: Young People's Literature
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: winner
Newbery Honor
2006
対象作品: Show Way
主催: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
結果: honor
Newbery Honor
2008
対象作品: Feathers
主催: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
結果: honor
Newbery Honor
2009
対象作品: After Tupac and D Foster
主催: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
結果: honor
Newbery Honor
2015
対象作品: Brown Girl Dreaming
主催: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
結果: honor
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
2018
主催: Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Foundation
結果: winner
Hans Christian Andersen Award
2020
主催: International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
結果: winner
MacArthur Fellowship
2020
主催: MacArthur Foundation
結果: winner
Margaret A. Edwards Award
2006
主催: Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) / ALA
結果: winner
Coretta Scott King Award (winner/honors)
2001
対象作品: Miracle's Boys
主催: American Library Association (ALA)
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Miracle's Boys

2000年 Young adult novel

A story of three brothers confronting loss and hardship, exploring family bonds and urban reality.

familylosscoming-of-age
映像化・舞台化
  • [TV miniseries] Miracle's Boys (miniseries) / Spike Lee 他 (2005)

Show Way

2006年 Children's picture book

A picture book that traces generations of Black women, using the 'show way' quilting pattern as a metaphor for history and hope.

family historyhopeheritage

Feathers

2007年 Middle-grade novel

A short school story about kindness and hope, following the changes that occur when a new student arrives.

compassionfriendshiphope

After Tupac and D Foster

2008年 Middle-grade / Young adult

Set in 1990s Brooklyn, it explores friendship, identity, and the influence of music.

friendshipidentitymusic culture

Brown Girl Dreaming

2014年 Verse novel / memoir in verse

A poetic verse memoir of the author's childhood, depicting race, family, and the formation of belonging.

growing upracefamily

Another Brooklyn

2016年 Adult novel

Set in 1970s Brooklyn, a story about friendship, lost youth, and memory.

friendshipmemoryurban experience

Red at the Bone

2019年 Adult novel

Follows three generations of a Black family, weaving family history, trauma, and events in contemporary American history.

generationstraumafamily

全著作

  • Last Summer with Maizon (1990)
  • Maizon at Blue Hill (1992)
  • Between Madison and Palmetto (1993)
  • I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (1994)
  • From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (1995)
  • Miracle's Boys (2000)
  • Show Way (2006)
  • Feathers (2007)
  • After Tupac and D Foster (2008)
  • Brown Girl Dreaming (2014)
  • Another Brooklyn (2016)
  • Red at the Bone (2019)

翻案

  • Miracle's Boys (TV miniseries, 2005)

作風・主題

文体
Poetic, concise verse-novel techniquesDetailed landscape description and immediacy of sceneDirect, emotionally resonant style aimed at young readers
頻出モチーフ
family and generational tiesrace and historyself-discovery and identityhope and resilience

評価・遺産

Jacqueline Woodson is a major figure in children's and young adult literature who expanded diversity and empathy in the field. Her works, weaving race, gender, family, and socioeconomic background, are widely respected in educational contexts and have received numerous major awards.

関連学会

  • American Library Association (ALA)
  • Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)

資料所蔵先

  • Jacqueline Woodson Papers (University of South Florida)

大衆文化への影響

  • The TV adaptation of Miracle's Boys (2005) brought her work to wider television audiences

引用

  • I wanted to write about communities that were familiar to me and people that were familiar to me. I wanted to write about communities of color. I wanted to write about girls. I wanted to write about friendship...
    出典: Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, Publishers Weekly (2002年)
  • When you're writing to a particular age group, especially a younger age group, the writing can't be as implicit. You're more in the moment... because that's what it feels like to be an adolescent.
    出典: NPR interview (2004年)

豆知識

  • Born in Columbus, Ohio
  • Partner is physician Juliet Widoff
  • Has two children
  • Served as Young People's Poet Laureate (2015–2017)
  • Served as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2018–2019)