Table of Contents: “…-- Changing woman, working -- Coretta Scott King award acceptance speech : Sweet whispers, Brother Rush -- The spirit spins : a writer's revolution -- Coretta Scott King award acceptance speech : The people could fly : American black folktales -- On being a black writer in America -- The Zena Sutherland lecture introduction of Virginia Hamilton by Betsy Hearne -- Lecture : Hagi, Mose, and Drylongso -- The spirit spins : a writer's resolution -- Boston Globe-Horn book award acceptance speech : Anthony Burns : The defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave -- Take your time -- Address to the 1990 graduating class of Bank Street College of Education -- Regina medal acceptance speech -- Together : Virginia Hamilton and Arnold Adoff -- Hans Christian Andersen award acceptance speech -- Everything of value : moral realism in the literature for children -- A storyteller's story -- Virginia Hamilton : continuing the conversation -- Laura Ingalls Wilder award acceptance speech -- Wittenberg University distinguished author lecture series -- Reflections -- Reflections on the illustrator's role : an interview with Virginia Hamilton -- Virginia Hamilton's illustrators -- Frances Clarke Sayers lecture : looking for America : a progeny's progress -- Children's book festival -- Letter to the editor of The Horn Book Magazine -- Words after by Kacy Cook -- Arnold : late at night in Ginny's office -- Leigh : rememory -- Jaime : rememory -- Arnold : into the future -- About Virginia Hamilton -- Books by Virginia Hamilton : a chronological listing -- Major awards : an alphabetical listing -- Contributors -- Celebrate her life.…”