Recipients of the Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Recipients of the Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

YearNameProfession
2024Christopher CurtisAuthor
2023Dr. Claudette McLinn Founder/Executive Director, Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature & Retired District Librarian
2022Nikki GrimesAuthor
2021Dorothy Guthrie Founder/Curator, African American Museum of History and Culture at Loray Mill
2020Mildred D. TaylorAuthor
2019Dr. Pauletta BracyProfessor of Library Science and Director of the Office of University Accreditation at North Carolina Central University
2018Eloise GreenfieldAuthor
2017Dr. Rudine Sims BishopProfessor Emerita at The Ohio State University
2016Jerry PinkneyArtist & Illustrator
2015Deborah D. TaylorCoordinator of School and Student Services, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore 
2014Patricia & Fredrick McKissackChildren’s Authors
2013Demetria TuckerFamily and youth services librarian for the Pearl Bailey Library, a branch of the Newport News (Va.) Public Library System
2012Ashley BryanStoryteller, artist, author, poet, and musician
2011Dr. Henrietta Mays SmithProfessor emerita at the University of South Florida, Tampa, School of Library and Information Science 
2010Walter Dean MyersAuthor
Recipients of the Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
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