Upon graduating, Virginia Hamilton moved to New York City where she worked all manner of jobs. In 1956, she decided to transfer to the Columbus-based Ohio State University and studied creative writing and literature. Virginia managed to snag a full scholarship when she was top of her high school class and was called to attend Antioch College. Levi Pery her grandfather had come to the state as a child through the Underground Railroad.Īs a child, her parents encouraged her to write and read widely and this is perhaps the root of her love for storytelling. Her mother’s family had lived in the southwestern Ohio farmlands for years starting in the 1850s.
She was born to Kenneth James and Eta Belle Hamilton and spent most of her childhood in Yellow Springs Ohio, as part of a large extended family. The author was born in 1934, just on the edge of the Great Depression.
Virginia Hamilton is a bestselling and award-winning young adult and children’s fiction author.
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