Showing posts with label Virginia Hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virginia Hamilton. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Born on this day – Virginia Hamilton:


Virginia Hamilton


Writer

March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002

Credits:

Books:

A Little Love (1984); A Newbery Halloween (1993); A Ring of Tricksters (1997); A White Romance (1987); Anthony Burns (1988); Arilla Sun Down (1976); Bluish (1999); Cousins (1990); Drylongso (1992); Dustland (1980); Her Stories (1995); In the Beginning (1988); Jaguarundi (1994); Jahdu (1980); Junius Over Far (1992); Justice and Her Brothers (1978); M.C. Higgins, the Great (1974); Many Thousand Gone (1993); Out of the Mold (1997); Paul Robeson (1974); Plain City (1993); Second Cousins (1998); Speeches, Essays, and Conversations (2010); Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982); The All Jahdu Storybook (1991); The Bells of Christmas (1989); The Dark Way (1990); The Gathering (1981); The Girl Who Spun Gold (2000); The House of Dies Drear (1968); The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (1983); The Mystery of Drear House (1987); The People Could Fly (1985); The Planet of Junior Brown (1971); The Time-Ago Tales of Jahdu (1969); The Writings of W. E. B. Dubois (1975); Time Pieces (2002); Time-Ago Lost (1973); Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels (2021); W.E.B. Du Bois (1972); Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny (2004); When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing (1996); Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed (1983); Zeely (1967).

Movies:

The House of Dies Drear (1984); The Planet of Junior Brown (1997).

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Virginia Hamilton, on writing:


I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas.
But one book inevitably follows another.
It is my way of exploring the known,
the remembered,
and the imagined,
the literary triad of which all stories are made.

- Virginia Hamilton.