American author Jacqueline Woodson is the daughter of Mary Anne Irby and Jack Austin Woodson, who divorced when she was young. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1963 but spent her early childhood in Greenville, South Carolina. When she was seven, she moved to Brooklyn to be with her mother. Woodson has three siblings: brothers Hope and Roman and sister Odella. She has two children, daughter Toshi and son Jackson Leroi, with her partner, Juliet Widoff.
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