As per our current Database, Virginia Hamilton has been died on Feb 19, 2002 (age 67).
When Virginia Hamilton die, Virginia Hamilton was 67 years old.
| Popular As | Virginia Hamilton |
| Occupation | Children's Author |
| Age | 67 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | March 12, 1934 (Ohio) |
| Birthday | March 12 |
| Town/City | Ohio |
| Nationality | Ohio |
Virginia Hamilton’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Virginia Hamilton was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Most well known for her Newbery Medal and U.S. Book Award-winning children's book M. C. Higgins, the Great, she is also famous for her children's mystery The House of Dies Drear, as well as for works such as Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl; The Planet of Junior Brown; and The Girl Who Spun Gold.
Some years after attending Antioch College and Ohio State University, she published her debut literary work, Zeely. The novel received the Nancy Bloch Award and an American Library Association Notable Book designation.
Her prestigious literary honors include the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
One of five children born to Kenneth and Etta Hamilton, she spent her childhood in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her marriage to children's poet Arnold Adoff produced two children.
In 2010, the American Library Association introduced a literary honor known as the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award that recognizes exceptional work by African American children's Writers.
