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Virginia hamilton biography
1988 In the Beginning is named the ALA Best Book for Young Adults, National Science Teachers Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, Newbery Honor Book, Parents Magazine’s Best Book of the Year, Time magazine’s One of the Twelve Best Books for Young Readers and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, among others.
1989 Virginia is named distinguished writing professor, Graduate School of Education, The Ohio State University.
1990 Virginia receives the Catholic Literary Association’s Regina Medal.
The only criterion for this award is excellence. The Regina Medal is awarded annually to a “living exemplar of the words of the English poet Walter de la Mare ‘only the rarest kind of best in anything can be good enough for the young,’ for continued, distinguished contribution to children’s literature.”
1992 Virginia wins the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, the highest international recognition bestowed on an author or illustrator of children’s literature.
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