Virginia Hamilton started in the workforce field in 1978, at the Stockton EDD office, as an Employment Program Representative (job placement staff). Over the past 36 years, she has held a variety of ...

The American writer Virginia Hamilton grew up on a Yellow Springs, Ohio farm that her family had owned since the 1850s. I also grew up in Yellow Springs, and was friends with Jaime and Leigh, the ...

The legacy of Virginia Hamilton, described as “America’s most honored writer of children’s literature,” continues through the efforts of her husband, poet and anthologist Arnold Adoff, who spoke ...

Hamilton was the most award-winning YA author in American literary history, and the first Black author to win a Newbery Medal. A new collection... Virginia Hamilton's 'liberation literature' continues ...

When Virginia Hamilton was 9, she began filling a notebook with what she would later describe as “an accumulation of mysteries” gleaned from the oblique and coded conversation of adults. “What a ...

She's the most award-winning YA author in American literary history, with dozens of works of fiction and non-fiction to her credit. Among other prizes, she won a National Book Award and was the first ...