VIRGINIA HAMILTON - Dustland - AVON 1981 1st Print PB - Leo & Diane Dillon Art

Description: Book Two of the Justice Cycle VIRGINIA HAMILTON - Dustland AVON/FLARE 56127 1st print 1980 PB Leo & Diane Dillon Art Nice and square, appears unread. Has light wear on the edges. Please see photos I pack really well and ship fast No ReturnsPlease let me know you need more info or additional photosJustice, her two brothers, and a neighbor-the “First Unit”-bound by extraordinary mental powers, time-travel to a distant future where all is dust and the powerful beast Miacis rules. Jealousy threatens to destroy the unit and trap them forever in Dustland. Virginia Hamilton Virginia Esther Hamilton was born, as she said, “on the outer edge of the Great Depression,” on March 12, 1934. The youngest of five children of Kenneth James and Etta Belle Perry Hamilton, Virginia grew up amid a large extended family in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The farmlands of southwestern Ohio had been home to her mother’s family since the late 1850s, when Virginia’s grandfather, Levi Perry, was brought into the state as an infant via the Underground Railroad. Virginia graduated at the top of her high-school class and received a full scholarship to Antioch College in Yellow Springs. In 1956, she transferred to the Ohio State University in Columbus and majored in literature and creative writing. She moved to New York City in 1958, working as a museum receptionist, cost accountant, and nightclub singer, while she pursued her dream of being a published writer. She studied fiction writing at the New School for Social Research under Hiram Haydn, one of the founders of Atheneum Press. It was also in New York that Virginia met poet Arnold Adoff. They were married in 1960. Arnold worked as a teacher, and Virginia was able to devote her full attention to writing, at least until daughter Leigh was born in 1963 and son Jaime in 1967. In 1969, Virginia and Arnold built their “dream home” in Yellow Springs, on the last remaining acres of the old Hamilton/Perry family farm, and settled into a life of serious literary work and achievement. In her lifetime, Virginia wrote and published 41 books in multiple genres that spanned picture books and folktales, mysteries and science fiction, realistic novels and biography. Woven into her books is a deep concern with memory, tradition, and generational legacy, especially as they helped define the lives of African Americans. Virginia described her work as “Liberation Literature.” She won every major award in youth literature. Leo Dillon and Diane Sorber were born eleven days apart in 1933-Leo in Brooklyn, New York, and Diane near Los Angeles, California. When they met at Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1954, each already aspired to a life of art. Meeting first through one another’s artwork, they immediately recognized the talent and mastery of the other. Over the years, their competitive friendship evolved into a lasting marriage and artistic partnership. “We’ve worked together for 40 years. In 1997 we celebrated our 40th anniversary and we completed our 40th book, To Every Thing There Is a Season.” The Dillons won the Caldecott Medal in 1976 and 1977 (for Ashanti to Zulu and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears), the only consecutive awards of the premier honor in U.S. picture book illustration. In 1978 they were the highly commended runner-up for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s illustrators; they were the U.S. nominee again in 1996. In addition , the Dillons have received four New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, four Boston Globe/Horn Book Awards, two Coretta Scott King Awards, and the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal.

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Book Title: Dustland

Book Series: The Justice Cycle

Narrative Type: Fiction

Publisher: Avon Flare

Original Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Publication Year: 1980

Type: Novel

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Illustrator: Leo and Diane Dillon

Author: Virginia Hamilton

Genre: Juvenile Fiction

Topic: Action & Adventure / General, Fantasy & Magic, General, Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural, People & Places / United States / African American, Science Fiction

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Item Weight: 0.1 Oz