Virginia Hamilton Book Signing

The Museum of Mobile presents a lunch break booksigning with Alabama author and historian, Dr. Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton for her new book, “Teddy’s Child: Growing up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars,” Tuesday, November 10 at 12 noon. Downtown area workers are encouraged to spend their lunch enjoying a colorful discussion with Dr. Hamilton on her family memoir.

Teddy’s Child explores Hamilton’s childhood in a Deep South city of Birmingham, Ala. the 1920s and 1930s. A time when everyone was trying to survive the Great Depression without government aids. Hamilton travels back to a past filled with books, travel, and interesting characters, yet shadowed by poverty and a family history of mental depression and nervous disorders.

Hamilton has been proclaimed a pioneer in journalism and academe, two arenas in which only a small minority of women then participated. She was the Associated Press reporter for the “women’s beat” at the Truman White House. While a wife and mother, she became the second woman to earn a Ph. D. degree from the History Department of the University of Alabama. After which she taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, chairing its history department for 10 years. Hamilton has written eight award-winning books as well as numerous articles in scholarly journals.