Awards & Winners

Virginia Hamilton

Date of Birth 12-March-1934
Place of Birth Yellow Springs
(Greene County, Ohio)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Virginia Hamilton-Adoff, Virginia Esther Hamilton
Profession Writer, Novelist, Author
Virginia Esther Hamilton was an African-American author of children's books. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Newbery Medal in 1975. For lifetime achievement Hamilton won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing children's literature in 1992 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her contributions to American children's literature in 1995.

Awards by Virginia Hamilton

Check all the awards nominated and won by Virginia Hamilton.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Art Book The People Could Fly

1996


Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : Her stories

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Her stories

1995


Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors The bells of Christmas

1989


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
Jane Addams Children's Book Award
Honored for : Anthony Burns

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Anthony Burns
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Anthony Burns

1986


Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : The People Could Fly

Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors The People Could Fly
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Junius over far

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors A little love

1984


Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl

1983


Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
John Newbery Medal Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
National Book Award for Children’s Books (Fiction, Hardcover) Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

1979


Nominations 1979 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Justice and her brothers

1975


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : M. C. Higgins, the Great
National Book Award for Children's Books
Honored for : M. C. Higgins, the Great

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal M. C. Higgins, the Great
National Book Award for Children's Books M. C. Higgins, the Great

1972


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : The Planet of Junior Brown

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal The Planet of Junior Brown

1969


Edgar Award for Best Juvenile
Honored for : The House of Dies Drear

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile The House of Dies Drear