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The known, the remembered, and the imagined: Celebrating Afro-American folktales

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Virginia Hamilton, Afro-American storyteller, novelist, lecturer, and biographer, was the first black woman to win the Newbery Award, forM. C. Higgins, the Great, which also won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the National Book Award. She has twice been honored by the International Board on Books for Young People, and others of her books have received Newbery Honor awards and the Coretta Scott King Award. Ms. Hamilton lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a former station of the Underground Railroad, where five generations of her family have resided.

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Hamilton, V. The known, the remembered, and the imagined: Celebrating Afro-American folktales. Child Lit Educ 18, 67–75 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01141814

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