Virginia hamilton short biography

When Virginia Hamilton was growing up in Yellow Springs, Ohio, she could spend her day walking in one direction and quite possibly never leave her family's land. Surrounded by the twelve acres of her father's farm -- plus that of her relatives -- Hamilton grew up loving the rural land.

"Being an Ohioan means that I have a long kinship with so many people here," she says, "with the landscape and the Ohio sky. For me, there is nothing quite like an Ohio sunset."

Being around her family also meant she was knee deep in inspiration.

The youngest of five children, she describes her father as the "the sun around which my world revolved" and her mother as her universe.

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Her parents were talented storytellers, who recounted to their children how their grandfather Levi Perry had escaped slavery across the Ohio River. Hamilton read, listened, and wrote with equal intensity as a child, describing both the images inside her head and the ideas around her.

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