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Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem, New York City. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers would encourage him in this habit as a ...
May 16, 2024 · Original name: Walter Milton Myers. Walter Dean Myers, was a prolific American children’s author best known for his urban fiction inspired by his childhood and adolescence in the Harlem district of New York City. His body of work consists of more than a hundred books, including novels, picture books, and poetry.
Apr 13, 2017 · New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers's last novel, delivers a gripping story based on the life of a real dancer known as Master Juba, who lived in the nineteenth century, and influenced today's tap, jazz, and step dancing.
Aug 5, 2005 · Myers passed away on July 1, 2014. Author of over seventy children’s and young adult books, Walter Dean Myers was born Walter Milton Myers on August 12, 1937, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. At age two, Myers’s mother, Mary Green, died, and Florence Brown Dean, his father’s ex-wife and her husband, Herbert Dean, raised him.
Jul 4, 2014 · Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling children’s book author whose crystalline prose often depicted the gritty lives of young people, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 76. His death, at Beth...
Walter Dean Myers won the Council on Interracial Books for Children contest in 1969, which resulted in the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? Since then, he has won more awards than any author for young adults, and is one of the most prolific writers, with more than 110 books to his credit.
Jul 3, 2014 · Walter Dean Myers died Tuesday after a brief illness. He was 76. He grew up in Harlem, and with books like the bestseller "Monster," he hoped to get African-American city kids interested in...
