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Virginia Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote over 35 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal.
Named for her grandfather's home state, Virginia Hamilton grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College and then transferred to Ohio State University. Sh...
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Virginia Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote over 35 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal.
Named for her grandfather's home state, Virginia Hamilton grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College and then transferred to Ohio State University. She married the poet Arnold Adoff in 1960.
Hamilton's first book, Zeely, was published in 1967, and she continued to write for the rest of her life. Her protagonists are generally African-American. She is known as a leader in the field of African-American children's literature.
Her book 1983 Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush was awarded a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. It is about a teenage girl, Tree, who has difficulty getting over the death of her brother Dab. Hamilton said that she was hesitant at first about including a ghost in some scenes in...
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