Virginia Hamilton Summary

Critical Essay by Elaine Landau [Until] recently it was rare to find an American under 18 who knew who Paul Robeson is. However, within less than a year, several of his old films have been revived, b... Read more

Critical Essay by Jane Langton Virginia Hamilton likes dangerous edges. She tries things that might not work. Her books are experimental, different, strange. She runs bravely along the edges of cliff... Read more

Critical Essay by Rosemary Stones "Never before has black creative intelligence coincided so opportunely with the development of black pride, the advancement of political-cultural awareness, i... Read more

Critical Essay by Virginia Haviland The author of Zeely has surpassed her earlier excellent achievement by dramatizing the history of an Underground Railroad Station in Ohio [in The House of Dies Dre... Read more

Critical Essay by John Rowe Townsend Clearly Virginia Hamilton is concerned as a writer with the black, or non-white, experience. To the best of my recollection, no fictional character in any of her ... Read more

Critical Essay by Betty Levin Virginia Hamilton is a writer of rare depth and range. Her subjects, her stories, her style, continue to press forward and away from what she has written before. "... Read more

Critical Essay by Barbara H. Baskin and Karen H. Harris [The Planet of Junior Brown, a] powerful, haunting, troubling book, contrasts sanity and madness, endorsement and rejection of life, commitment... Read more

Critical Essay by Holly Eley The Gathering, volume three of Virginia Hamilton's alluring but incohesive trilogy, is an innovative book; likely to engender a spate of analysis from Black Studie... Read more

Critical Essay by Dorothy Sterling The last few years have seen a slow trickle of children's stories with Negro characters. For the most part these "integrated" books have been t... Read more

Critical Essay by Katherine Paterson There are those who say that Virginia Hamilton is a great writer but that her books are hard to get into. [Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush] is not. It fairly reaches... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Cart A stunningly good, absolutely compelling, weird and unique book, Virginia Hamilton's [The Planet of Junior Brown] is the story of three outsiders in New York Cit... Read more

Critical Essay by Marilyn Gardner "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," W.E.B. DuBois wrote prophetically in 1903. Virginia Hamilton's excellen... Read more

Critical Essay by Sheryl B. Andrews William Edward Burghardt Du Bois struggled for ninety-five years as educator, writer, intellectual, and poet against prejudice and fear, so that black people throu... Read more