# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virginia-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:36:37.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virginia-hamilton"
name: "Virginia Hamilton"
slug: "virginia-hamilton"
description: "Virginia Esther Hamilton was an American children's books author. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974), for which she won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature\nand the Newbery Medal in 1975. Her works were celebrated for exploring the African-American experience, what she called \"Liberation Literature.\""
tagline: "American writer of children's books (1936–2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Virginia_Hamilton.png"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-03-12"
deathDate: "2002-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.virginiahamilton.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump