Virginia Hamilton papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 900
Subjects: African American authors; African Americans; American literature; Children's books; Biography; Fiction
Description: Correspondence, drafts, printing proofs, biographical material, research material, publicity items, reviews, illustrations, and other papers pertaining chiefly to the production of Hamilton's children's books.  Includes drafts of Anthony Burns : The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (1988); Bluish : A Novel (1999); The House of Dies Drear (1968); M.C. Higgins, The Great (1974); Paul Robeson : The Life and Times of a Free Black Man (1974); and W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography (1972).
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Arnold Adoff, 2003-2007.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

African American children's author.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009203