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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

76th National Book Awards Ceremony

New York City

So looking forward to cheering on all the finalists AND presenting the 2025 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to my dear friend - the award-winning writer, editor, and cultural critic, Roxane Gay. New York City

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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for adults, children, and adolescents. She is best known for her National Book Award-Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers. After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–19. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. Later that same year, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.