Gotham: Writers in the City: Jacqueline Woodson

Woodson has written over two dozen works for children and young adults. She has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors and the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement. Her recent novel, Beneath a Meth Moon, centers on a Mississippi teen reeling from the loss of her mother and grandmother in Hurricane Katrina. She falls into a downward spiral when her boyfriend introduces her to meth, but finally gets clean. She will discuss her new book, Each Kindness, with WNYC’s Leonard Lopate.