![]() The book also won the National Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and The New York Times Outstanding Children’s Book of the Year. Higgins, the Great (1974) won the Newbery Medal, making Hamilton the first black author to receive the medal. Hamilton published The Planet of Junior Brown, which was named a Newbery Honor Book and also won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1971. Zeely was named an American Library Association Notable Book and won the Nancy Bloch Award. In 1967, Zeely was published, the first of more than 40 books. Adoff supported the family by working as a teacher, so Hamilton spent her time writing and had two children. The two later returned with their children to live on the farm where Hamilton was raised. She met poet Arnold Adoff while living in New York City, and married him in 1960. She received a full scholarship to Antioch College but later transferred to Ohio State University. Her family encouraged her to read and write widely. The area has been home to her mother's family since the late 1850s, when her maternal grandfather, Levi Perry, was brought into the state as an infant via the Underground Railroad. The youngest of five children of Kenneth James and Etta Belle (nee Perry) Hamilton, Virginia grew up amid a large extended family in Yellow Springs, Ohio. ![]()
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