“It’s a dream come true to come back and have ‘made it,’” the popular novelist Jacqueline Woodson told me as she walked through the gym last week at Bushwick High School, where she graduated in 1981, and was now walking toward a cluster of students waiting in line to hear her speak. Her 2016 novel Another Brooklyn had been widely reviewed, a nominee for the National Book Award for Fiction that year. In the years since, her work has landed various other notices, like the popular MacArthur “Genius” grant.