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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:25:10 -0600
The children's literature community was deeply shocked and saddened by the news of Virginia Hamilton's death on February 19, 2002. She died at her home in Yeloow Springs, Ohio, and is survived by her husband, Arnold Adoff, and children Leigh and Jaime.
One of the foremost U.S. authors for children, Ms Hamilton was the author of 22 novels, three biographies, and several collections of folktales. She had won nearly every children's book award possible, including the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Award, Boston Globe Horn Book Award, National Book Award, Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She was also the first (and, so far, only) children's author to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1985 Kent State University established an annual conference in her honor to focus on multicultural literature.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer research, the Urban League, the NAACP and the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth.
http://www.virginiahamilton.com
Received on Fri 01 Mar 2002 03:25:10 PM CST
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 15:25:10 -0600
The children's literature community was deeply shocked and saddened by the news of Virginia Hamilton's death on February 19, 2002. She died at her home in Yeloow Springs, Ohio, and is survived by her husband, Arnold Adoff, and children Leigh and Jaime.
One of the foremost U.S. authors for children, Ms Hamilton was the author of 22 novels, three biographies, and several collections of folktales. She had won nearly every children's book award possible, including the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Award, Boston Globe Horn Book Award, National Book Award, Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She was also the first (and, so far, only) children's author to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1985 Kent State University established an annual conference in her honor to focus on multicultural literature.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer research, the Urban League, the NAACP and the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth.
http://www.virginiahamilton.com
Received on Fri 01 Mar 2002 03:25:10 PM CST
