Margaret Dawn Hamilton AM (23 June 1941 – 24 November 2022)[1] was an Australian children’s literature publisher who served as the National President of the Children’s Book Council of Australia from 1991 to 1992 and as a National Board Member until April 2017 when she formally retired.
In 2008, she also received the Order of Australia Medal, ‘for service to the arts through the promotion of children’s literature and literacy and through support for authors and illustrators’.
[11] Margaret Hamilton retired from publishing in 2001 but occasionally worked with other children's books authors and illustrators such as Glenda Millard, Stephen Michael King, and Patricia Mullins as a freelancer.
[2] On 13 November 2010, she opened a centre for children's books in a cottage called Pinerolo in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains.
The cottage also has regular programs, courses, workshops, and school talks with authors and illustrators affiliated with the centre.
[7] She met her husband Max Hamilton who was a fellow librarian at the Parramatta City Library and married him in 1967.