found: Willie Bea and the time ... 1989, c1983:CIP title page (Virginia Hamilton) copyright page (Virginia Hamilton Adoff)
found: New York times, Feb. 20, 2002:obituaries (Virginia Hamilton; writer for children; d. Feb. 19, 2002 in Dayton, Ohio at age 65)
found: Something about the author, c1995:volume 79, pages 89-96 (Hamilton, Virginia (Esther); b. Mar. 12, 1936; married Arnold Adoff (an anthologist and poet), Mar. 19, 1960; photograph; lists many awards, honors; lists many fiction for children, biographies for children, and "other")
found: Virginia Hamilton: speeches, essays, and conversations, 2010:page 353 (born on March 12, 1934)
found: Wikipedia, Dec. 4, 2014(Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1934 - Feb. 19, 2002) was an African-American author of children's books; for lifetime achievement Hamilton won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award for writing children's literature in 1992)
found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Hamilton, Virginia Esther; fiction writer, children's book writer / illustrator, essayist; born 12 March 1936 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States; attended Antioch College, after three years, transferred to Ohio State University for one year, and then studied at the New School for Social Research in New York; won the John Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the National Book Award and several others; died 19 February 2002 in Ohio, United States)
found: Ancestry.com WWW site, viewed Aug. 23, 2018:Ohio death records, 1908-1932, 1938-2007 (Virginia Esther Adoff (Virginia Esther Hamilton); b. Mar. 12, 1934, Greene [County], Ohio; d. Feb. 19, 2002, Dayton, Ohio, aged 67; residence: Yellow Springs, Ohio) Social security death index, 1935-2014 (Virginia E. Adoff; b. Mar. 12, 1934; d. Feb. 19, 2002; last residence: Yellow Springs, Ohio)
