Virginia Hamilton

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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.

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Bluish
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In the Beginning
Representative edition published 2021
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The Art of Dying
Representative edition published 2020
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The People Could Fly
Representative edition published 2018
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The gathering
Representative edition published 2011
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Virginia Hamilton
Representative edition published 2010
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Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Reader's Companion -- Bronze Level
Representative edition published 2008
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Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
Representative edition published 2005
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Reader's Companion--Bronze Level
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Representative edition published 2005
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Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny
Representative edition published 2004
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Bruh Rabbit and the tar baby girl
Representative edition published 2003
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Plain City
Representative edition published 2003
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Many Thousand Gone
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Time Pieces
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Second cousins
Representative edition published 2001
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The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
Representative edition published 2001
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
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The girl who spun gold
Representative edition published 2000
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The House of Dies Drear
Representative edition published 2000
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Prentice Hall Literature--Copper
Representative edition published 2000
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Jaguarundi
Representative edition published 1999
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M.C. Higgins, the Great
Representative edition published 1999
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A white romance
Representative edition published 1999
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