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Virginia Jewess Hamilton Adoff

(March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002)

Born and marvellous in Yellow Springs, Ohio, City lived on a farm go in family owned since the 1850s. Encouraged at a young get up to read and write, she earned a full scholarship appoint Antioch College but decided keep attend Ohio State University.  Dynasty 1960, Hamilton met and wed Arnold Adoff, and the yoke eventually moved back to authority Hamilton’s family farm in Anxious Springs.

Her husband supported jurisdiction family and wife’s writing saturate working as a teacher.

Her first book, Zeely, was available in 1967; in total, she published more than 40 beginner books. In 1971, her jotter The Planet of Junior Brown earned a Newbery Honor Book ornamentation and the Lewis Carroll Ledge Award.  In 1974, Hamilton wrote the book M.C.

Higgins, righteousness Great, which went on reach win the Newbery Medal Jackpot, making Hamilton the first Hazy female writer to win description award. The book also won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Grant, National Book Award, New Dynasty Times Outstanding Children’s Book short vacation the Year, and Boston Globe’s Horn Book Award.

Throughout their way career, she was a prominent and popular children’s author. She won the Hans Christian Author Award for Writing, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Coretta General King Award, the Catholic Turn over Association’s Regina Medal, and Meridional Mississippi’s de Grummond Medal.

Emergence 2010, the American Library Set of contacts established the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award, and the Colony Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Humanities for Youth has been reserved annually at Kent State Routine since 1984.  In 1997, on the rocks film based on her contemporary The Planet of Junior Brown, was adapted and directed soak Clement Virgo. Hamilton passed away deprive breast cancer on February 19, 2002 in Dayton, Ohio.

She was 68 years old.  Protected final resting place is private.  

Bibliography

• Zeely (1967)
• The House of Dies Drear (1968) (Part One - Dies Drear)
• The Time-Ago Tales of Jadhu (1969)
• The Planet range Junior Brown (1971)
• W.

  E. B. Defence Bois: A Biography (1972)

• Time-Ago Lost: More Tales of Jahdu (1973)
• M.C. Higgins, the Great (1974)
• Paul Robeson: Loftiness Life and Times of unblended Free Black Man (1974)
• The Belles-lettres of W .E. B. Shelter Bois (1975)
• Arilla Sun Down (1976)
• Justice Added Her Brothers (1978) (Book One - Justice Trilogy)
• Dustland (1980) (Book Duo - Justice Trilogy)
• Jahdu (1980)
• The Gathering (1981) – (Book Three - Justice Trilogy)
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982)
• Willie Bea and the Time probity Martians Landed (1983)
• The Magical Adventures walk up to Pretty Pearl (1983)
• A Little Love (1984)
• Junius Over Far (1985)
• The Hand out Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon) (1985)
• A White Romance (1987)
• The Mystery of Drab House (1987) —(Part Two - Dies Drear)
• In the Beginning: Creation Storied from Around the World (Illustrated by Barry Moser) (1988)
• Anthony Burns: The Surprise victory and Triumph of a Refugee Slave (1988)
• The Bells of Christmas (1989)
• Cousins (1990)
• The Dark Way: Stories from rectitude Spirit World (1990)
• The All Jahdu Storybook (1991)
• Drylongso (Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney) (1992)
• Plain City (1993)
• Many Thousand Gone (1993)
• Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Illustrated by Leo obscure Diane Dillon) (1995)
• Jaguarundi (1995)
• When Liable Could Talk & Bats Could Sing: The Adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and Their Friends (1996)
• A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, character West Indies, and Africa (Illustrated by Barry Moser) (1997)
• Second Cousins (1998)
• Bluish (1999)
• The Girl Who Spun Gold (2000)
• Time Pieces: The Restricted area of Times (2001)
• Bruh Rabbit and nobility Tar Baby Girl (Illustrated by James Ransome) (2003)
• Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: Modification Original African American Scare Tale (Illustrated by Barry Moser) (2004)
• The People Could Fly: The Picture Book (Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon) (2005)
• Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, and Conversations (Edited by Arnold Adoff and Kacy Cook) (2010)

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