Virginia Hamilton: Out of the Heartland.

By buckeyemuse | March 15, 2014

“Everything I write comes out of Ohio.” –Virginia Hamilton in a talk to Fairborn, Ohio teachers on February 24, 1995. Virginia Hamilton (March 12, 1936–February 19, 2002). Children’s book author, folklorist, anthologist, biographer, born in Yellow Springs, Ohio on a family farm dating back to the 1850s. Many readers know her from her books The…

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