Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton was born and raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College on a scholarship, and then transferred to Ohio State University in 1956 to study literature and creative writing. In 1958 she moved to New York City where she worked odd jobs, studied fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, and wrote.
Hamilton married in 1960 and became a full-time writer. In 1967 she published her first book, Zeely, published in 1967, which won numerous awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
In 1969, Hamilton and her family moved back to Yellow Springs, Ohio. Over the course of career, she published 41 books, largely for children, which included picture books, folktales, mysteries, science fiction, novels, and biographies. She died of breast cancer in 2002.
Books
OpenLibrary works by this author.
A Lesson plan book for Cousins (Innovations, experiencing literature in the classroom)
A Little Love
Anthony Burns
Arilla Sun Down
A ring of tricksters
A white romance
Big Plans, Unit 2, Teacher's Sourcebook
Bluish
Bruh Rabbit and the tar baby girl
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Collection of 3 Newbery Medal Winners
Cousins
Cousins/Arilla Sun Down/The Mystery of Drear House/Jaguarundi/Plain City-22 Copy
Dark Way
Discover new ways ... centers, tasks, games
Drylongso
Dustland
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People
Everybody Duck
Everybody Duck
Gathering
Her stories
Illusion and reality
Information finders
In the Beginning
Jaguarundi
Jahdu
Junius over Far (Charlotte Zolotow Book)
Justice and her brothers
Justice Trilogy
Lights! Camera! Action!
Many Thousand Gone
M.C. Higgins, the Great
Paul Robeson
Plain City
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
PROBLEM PATROL Teacher's SourceBook Grade 1 Unit 2
Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
Second cousins
Sweet whispers, Brother Rush
Teacher's Source Book Grade 1 Unit 1 HELLO
The all Jahdu storybook
The Bells of Christmas
The Bells of Christmas
The gathering
The girl who spun gold
The House of Dies Drear
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
The Mystery of Drear House
The People Could Fly
The planet of Junior Brown
The time-ago tales of Jahdu
Time-ago lost; more tales of Jahdu
Time Pieces
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton : Five Novels
Virginia Hamilton papers
W.E.B. Du Bois
Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny
When birds could talk & bats could sing
Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed
Zeely
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