Black History Presents – Daily Knowledge: Virginia Hamilton (Day 4)
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04/02/2012,
by Mr. Blair,
in African-American Awareness,
Black People,
Blair History Month,
General
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton was an award-winning author of children’s books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal. Hamilton’s first book, as a child was “The Novel”. Then came Zeely, published in 1967, and 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.