I'm only thankful that children like my stories as well, my own children included. I have a son, Jaime, and a daughter, Leigh. I met Arnold Adoff in 1957 and we were married in New York, March, 1960. We describe ourselves as a two-Olivetti family. We live with our children, ten cats and one dog, in a great modern house smack in the middle of a cornfield, the last remaining section of that farm belonging to my family.
Writing is our staff of life.
Home and hearth is the medium by which it grows. Virginia Hamilton began to receive recognition as soon as her books were published, and her list of honors and awards is impressive. All of her books have been chosen Notable Books by the American Library Association in the year of their publication. Zeely received the Nancy Bloch Memorial Award of the Downtown Community School of New York in 1968. The House of Dies Drear received the Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1968, given by the Mystery Writers of America for the best juvenile mystery of the year.