JD Jackson

JD Jackson is an American audiobook narrator, actor, and theater professor. Jackson has won 26 Earphone Awards and 1 Audie Award. In 2020, AudioFile named him a Golden Voice Narrator and two years later Booklist named him a Voice of Choice Narrator.

Biography Jackson received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Speech Communications from Dillard University in 1997. Locomotion (2003) by Jacqueline Woodson Earphone Award Winner 2009 Just Another Hero (2009) by Sharon M. Draper Earphone Award Winner 2010 Cemetery Road (2009) by Gar Anthony Haywood Earphone Award Winner 2011 Ghetto Cowboy (2011) by G. Neri Earphone Award Winner

Ghetto Cowboy (2011) by G. Neri Odyssey Award Honor Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (1993) by Walter Dean Myers Earphone Award Winner What It Was (2012) by George Pelecanos Earphone Award Winner

Citizens Creek (2014) by Lalita Tademy Earphone Award Winner Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Earphone Award Winner

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (2015) by Eric Foner Earphone Award Winner

Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top 10 Audie Award for Distinguished Achievement in Production Finalist 2016 Citizens Creek (2014) by Lalita Tademy Audie Award for Fiction Finalist

Bluebird, Bluebird (2017) by Attica Locke Earphone Award Winner Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971 (2017) by Leigh Montville Earphone Award Winner 2018 The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson by Nancy Peacock Audie Award for Fiction Finalist

Look Both Ways (2019) by Jason Reynolds Earphone Award Winner Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) by Martin Luther King Jr. Audie Award for Nonfiction Finalist

Beowulf: A New Translation (2020) by Maria Dahvana Headley Earphone Award Winner A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (2019) by Lonnie G. Bunch III Earphone Award Winner His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham Earphone Award Winner The Nickel Boys (2019) by Colson Whitehead Audie Award for Best Male Narrator Finalist The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom (2020) by William Still and edited by Quincy T. Mills, with introduction by Ta-Nehisi Coates Earphone Award Winner

The Anatomy of Desire (2021) by L. R. Dorn Earphone Award Winner Black Cop's Kid: An Essay (2021) by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Earphone Award Winner Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda (2021), edited by Jesse J. Holland Earphone Award Winner Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Earphone Award Winner Hell of a Book (2021) by Jason Mott Earphone Award Winner His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham Audie Award for History or Biography Winner A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (2020) by Hanif Abdurraqib Earphone Award Winner When Ghosts Come Home (2021) by Wiley Cash Earphone Award Winner

Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Top 10 Odyssey Award Honor

The Anatomy of Desire (2021) by L. R. Dorn Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance Finalist The Best American Short Stories 2021, edited by Jesmyn Ward and Heidi Pitlor Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections Finalist Listen Mama by M.S.P. Williams Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir Finalist Honors In 2020, AudioFile inducted Jackson into their Golden Voice Hall of Fame.

He also narrated two Pulitzer Prize-winning audiobooks, The Tradition by Jericho Brown and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, as well as Carnegie Medal winner, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib. 2011 Just Another Hero by Sharon Draper AudioFile Best of Young Adult Ghetto Cowboy (2011) by G. Neri Notable Children's Recordings What It Was (2012) by George Pelecanos AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone Notable Children's Recordings Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Booklist Editors' Choice: Audio for Youth Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Booklist Editor's Top of the List

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (2015) by Eric Foner AudioFile Best of History A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Lewis Notable Children's Videos The Madman of Piney Woods Notable Children's Recordings Revolution (2014) by Deborah Wiles Notable Children's Recordings

Bluebird, Bluebird (2017) by Attica Locke AudioFile Best of Mystery & Suspense

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) by Nikole Hannah-Jones Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Audio Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain AudioFile Best of History & Biography His Truth is Marching On AudioFile Best of History & Biography The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript,edited by Mark L. Levine, George C. McNamee, and Daniel Greenberg Listen List When Stars Are Scattered (2020) by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed Notable Children's Recordings Filmography

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