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| Jacqueline Woodson | |
Jacqueline Woodson, the award-winning author of more than 30 books for children and young adults, is this year's recipient of the City College of New York's Langston Hughes Medal, which recognizes "highly distinguished writers from throughout the African American diaspora for their impressive works of poetry, fiction, drama, autobiography and critical essays that help to celebrate the memory and tradition of Langston Hughes."
Woodson is the 2014 National Book Award winner for Brown Girl Dreaming, which also received the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award and the Sibert Honor Award. She was recently named the Young People's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation and is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner.
"Like Langston Hughes, Woodson is a prolific writer in many genres including fiction, poetry, plays and opera," said Retha Powers, director of the Langston Hughes Festival. "She also shares with Hughes a wide readership among young readers and is taught in schools all over the country." Woodson will receive the award November 20 during the festival.