Virginia Hamilton
b. 1936 – d. 2002 · 40 books
Biography
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.
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 by Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton : Five Novel
Virginia Hamilton : Five Novels
Justice Trilogy
Justice Trilogy
Bluish
Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny
Bruh Rabbit and the tar baby girl
Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
A ring of tricksters
Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
A white romance
Collection of 3 Newbery Medal Winners
Cousins/Arilla Sun Down/The My
Cousins/Arilla Sun Down/The Mystery of Drear House/Jaguarundi/Plain City-22 Copy
Big Plans, Unit 2, Teacher's S
Big Plans, Unit 2, Teacher's Sourcebook
Information finders
PROBLEM PATROL Teacher's Sourc
PROBLEM PATROL Teacher's SourceBook Grade 1 Unit 2
Teacher's Source Book Grade 1 Unit 1 HELLO
When birds could talk & bats could sing
Plain City
Junius over Far (Charlotte Zolotow Book)
A Lesson plan book for Cousins
A Lesson plan book for Cousins (Innovations, experiencing literature in the classroom)
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
The all Jahdu storybook
Dark Way
Sweet whispers, Brother Rush
Justice and her brothers
Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed
The Mystery of Drear House
Dustland
Jahdu
Arilla Sun Down
Time-ago lost; more tales of J
Time-ago lost; more tales of Jahdu
Discover new ways ... centers,
Discover new ways ... centers, tasks, games
The time-ago tales of Jahdu
Everybody Duck
Many Thousand Gone
The Bells of Christmas
Virginia Hamilton papers
Virginia Hamilton papers