- Author: Virginia Hamilton Author Record # 5750
- Legal Name: Adoff, Virginia Esther Hamilton
- Birthplace: Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA
- Birthdate: 12 March 1936
- Deathdate: 19 February 2002
- Language: English
- Webpages: answers.com, IMDB, Library of Congress, SFE, virginiahamilton.com, Wikipedia-EN
- Note: Winner of the 1992 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
- Author Tags: African-Americans (4), young-adult sf (3), esp (3), twins (3), juvenile folktale (1), juvenile horror (1), folktale-style (1), historical fantasy (1), Africans (1), slavery (1), escape (1), flight (1), freedom (1), young-adult (1), religion (1), folktale retelling (1), myth retelling (1), extraterrestrial beings (1), juvenile fantasy (1), gestalt (1) and 5 additional tags. View all tags for Virginia Hamilton
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Fiction Series
- Dies Drear Chronicles
- 1 The House of Dies Drear (1968)
- 2 The Mystery of Drear House (1987)
- Justice Trilogy
- 1 Justice and Her Brothers (1978)
- 2 Dustland (1980)
- 3 The Gathering (1981)
- The Justice Trilogy (2012) [O/1,2,3]
- M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974)
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (1982)
- The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl (1983)
- Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed (1983)
- The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (1985)
- In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World (1988)
- The Dark Way: Stories from the Spirit World (1990)
- Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (1995)
- A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa (1997)
- Jaguarundi (1997)
- Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale (2004)
- The People Could Fly (2004)
- A Wolf and Little Daughter (1985)
- Better Wait Till Martin Comes (1985)
- Bruh Alligator and Bruh Deer (1985)
- Bruh Alligator Meets Trouble (1985)
- Bruh Lizard and Bruh Turtle (1985)
- Carrying the Running-Aways (1985)
- Doc Rabbit, Bruh Fox, and Tar Baby (1985)
- He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit (1985)
- How Nehemiah Got Free (1985)
- Jack and the Devil (1985)
- John and the Devil's Daughter (1985)
- Little Eight John (1985)
- Manuel Had a Riddle (1985)
- Papa John's Tall Tale (1985)
- Tappin, the Land Turtle (1985)
- The Beautiful Girl of the Moon Tower (1985)
- The Most Useful Slave (1985)
- The Peculiar Such Thing (1985)
- The People Could Fly (1985)
- The Riddle Tale of Freedom (1985)
- The Talking Cooter (1985)
- The Two Johns (1985)
- Wiley, His Mama, and the Hairy Man (1985)
- Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse (1985)
- An Endless Sea of Mud (1988)
- Bandicoots Come from His Body (1988)
- Bursting From the Hen's Egg (1988)
- Finding Night (1988)
- First Man Becomes the Devil (1988)
- First Man, First Woman (1988)
- Four Creations to Make Man (1988)
- In the Beginning (1988)
- Man Copies God (1988)
-
Marduk, God of Gods (1988)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Apsu and Tiamat the Creators (1988)
- Moon and Sun (1988)
- Owner of the Sky (1988)
- Pandora (1988)
- Separation of Earth and Sky (1988)
- Spider Ananse Finds Something (1988)
- Sun, Life, Wind, and Death (1988)
- The Angry Gods (1988)
- The Coming of All Things (1988)
- The Frost Giant (1988)
- The God Brings Fire to Man (1988)
- The Pea-Pod Man (1988)
- The Sun-God and the Dragon (1988)
- The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1988)
- Traveling to Form the World (1988)
- Turtle Dives to the Bottom of the Sea (1988)
- Baba Yaga, the Terrible (1990)
- Brothers and Bone (1990)
- Childe Rowland and Burd Ellen (1990)
- Everlasting Life (1990)
- Fenris, the Wolf (1990)
- Joseph Golem (1990)
- Manabozo (1990)
- Medusa (1990)
- Rolling Rio, the Gray Man, and Death (1990)
- Tanuki Magic Teakettle (1990)
- The Argument (1990)
- The Banshee (1990)
- The Flying Dutchman (1990)
- The Free Spirits, Bouki and Malice (1990)
- The Girl Who Was Swallowed by the Earth (1990)
- The Horned Women (1990)
- The Magician's Fellow (1990)
- The One-Inch Boy (1990)
- The Pretender (1990)
- The Tiny Thing (1990)
- The Very Large Son (1990)
- The Wicked Stepmother (1990)
- The Witch's Boar (1990)
- The Witch's Skinny (1990)
- Yama, the God of Death (1990)
- The Year Halloween Happened One Day Early (1993)
- Jaguarundi (1997)
- Bruh Wolf and Bruh Rabbit Join Together (1997)
- Buh Rabby and Bruh Gator (1997)
- Buzzard and Wren Have a Race (1997)
- Cunnie Anansi Does Some Good (1997)
- Cunnie Rabbit and Spider Make a Match (1997)
- How Chameleon Become a Ride (1997)
- Magic Anansi (1997)
- Old Mister Turtle Gets a Whipping (1997)
- That One, Anansi (1997)
- The Animals Share (1997)
- The Cat and the Rat (1997)
- Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny: An Original African American Scare Tale (2004)