Virginia Hamilton
Novelist, Author
1934 – 2002
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Who was Virginia Hamilton?
Virginia Esther Hamilton was an African-American author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Newbery Medal in 1975.
For lifetime achievement Hamilton won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing children's literature in 1992 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her contributions to American children's literature in 1995.
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- Born
- Mar 12, 1934
Yellow Springs - Also known as
- Virginia Hamilton-Adoff
- Virginia Esther Hamilton
- Parents
- Spouses
- Arnold Adoff
(1960/03 - 2002/02/19)
- Arnold Adoff
- Children
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Antioch College
- Ohio State University
- The New School
- Lived in
- Yellow Springs
- Died
- Feb 19, 2002
Dayton
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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