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Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.
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African AmericansFictionJuvenile fictionBlacksFriendshipFarm life
About the author
Virginia Hamilton
12 March 1936 – 19 February 2002
Virginia Hamilton was born and raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College on a scholarship, and then transferred to Ohio State University in 1956 to study literature and creative writing. In 1958 she moved to New York City where she worked odd jobs, studied fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, and wrote. Hamilton married in 1960 and became a full-time writer. In 1967 she published her first book, Zeely, published in 1967, which won numerous awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 1969, Hamilton and her family …
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