![]() ![]() Although the partnership did not work out, it did get Woodson's first manuscript out of a drawer. She helped to write the California standardized reading tests and caught the attention of Liza Pulitzer-Voges, a children's book agent at the same company. Writing careerĪfter college, Woodson went to work for Kirchoff/Wohlberg, a children's packaging company. Brooklyn was so much more diverse: on the block where I grew up, there were German people, people from the Dominican Republic, people from Puerto Rico, African-Americans from the South, Caribbean-Americans, Asians."Īs a child, Woodson enjoyed telling stories and always knew she wanted to be a writer. The city was thriving and fast-moving and electric. Brown she remembered: "The South was so lush and so slow-moving and so much about community. Woodson's youth was split between South Carolina and Brooklyn. ![]()
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