New York: Knopf, 1993. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. Dillon, Leo and Diane. 1st ptg. Square 4to, cloth backed boards, illustrated in gray-scale throughout by Leo and Diane Dillon. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks.

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Virginia Hamilton , storyteller, lecturer, and biographer, was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be a station on the Underground Railroad. Her grandfather settled in the village after escaping slavery in Virginia. She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State University and did further study in literature and the novel at the New School for Social Research. Virginia was the first African American woman to win the Newbery Award, for M.C. Higgins the Great. Since then, she has won three Newbery Honors and three Coretta Scott King Awards. In 1992, Virginia was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, which is presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People, in recognition of her entire body of work. Virginia writes first for the pleasure of using words and language to evoke characters and their world, and in historical accounts such as Anthony Burns, the lives of real people. Secondly, Hamilton writes to entertain, to inspire in people the desire to read on and on good books made especially for them. Leo and Diane Dillon have twice won the Caldecott Medal

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Bookseller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 24401
Title: Many Thousand Gone
Author: Hamilton, Virginia
Illustrator: Dillon, Leo and Diane
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st ed
ISBN 10: 0394828739
ISBN 13: 9780394828732
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1993
Bookseller catalogs: Folk/Fairy Tales;

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