In 1992, Virginia was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, which is presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People, in recognition of her entire body of work. Since then, she has won three Newbery Honors and three Coretta Scott King Awards. Virginia was the first African American woman to win the Newbery Award, for M.C. She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State University and did further study in literature and the novel at the New School for Social Research. Her grandfather settled in the village after escaping slavery in Virginia. Virginia Hamilton, storyteller, lecturer, and biographer, was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be a station on the Underground Railroad.
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