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To highlight The Ohio State University’s children’s literature program, the College of Education and Human Ecology (EHE) will present the inaugural Excellence in Children’s Literature: Newbery Award Symposium this fall. The symposium will be held Nov. 15 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Ohio Union.

The symposium will spotlight five Black authors who have won the prestigious John Newbery Award, considered the top prize for children’s literature in the United States. The event will feature a panel discussion with the honorees, keynote presentations by authors and breakout sessions on a variety of topics related to literacy and education.

A special emphasis of the symposium will be EHE’s long history with African American children’s literature. The first Black author to receive the Newbery Medal attended Ohio State: the late Virginia Hamilton.

Hamilton was born to a large extended family in Yellow Springs in 1934. She transferred to Ohio State from Antioch College in 1956, majoring in literature and creative writing.

Hamilton went on to publish 41 books, including “M.C. Higgins, the Great,” for which she won the 1975 Newbery Medal. She received numerous other honors throughout her career, including the Coretta Scott King Book Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Award, according to the American Library Association.

Though she gained international acclaim and lived in New York City for several years, she stayed close to her Ohio roots, said her son Jaime Adoff.