birth_date: 1936-03-12 00:00:00
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name: Virginia Hamilton
about: Virginia Esther Hamilton was the author of forty-one works of fiction and nonfiction. She was the first Black writer awarded the Newbery Medal and the first children’s writer to be named a MacArthur Fellow (the “Genius” grant). She also received the National Book Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal.
death_date: 2002-02-19 00:00:00