Brown Girl Dreaming: Author Jacqueline Woodson’s 2015 BGHB NF Honor Speech

by Jacqueline Woodson
Jan 04, 2016 | Filed in Authors & Illustrators
woodson_brown girl dreamingHey Everybody. I want to thank the committee for choosing Brown Girl Dreaming as a Boston Globe–Horn Book honor book. It wasn’t an easy book to write — I know no book is easy — but Brown Girl Dreaming took me on a writing journey like no other. And while I’m grateful for that journey, I am glad to have that book in print — and out of me.

Imagine a very long labor without any drugs. Then imagine the euphoria that follows. The book in the world and having its life is that euphoria — and winning this award is a part of that.

From the January/February 2016 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. For more on the 2015 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, click on the tag BGHB15.
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is the author of the 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Award winner Remember Us (Paulsen/Penguin). She was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2020 Macarthur "Genius" awardee, recipient of the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Author, was the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature 2018–2019, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate, received the 2006 Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement, and has won three Newbery Honors, two Coretta Scott King Book Awards, and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

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