# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-dean-myers
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:25:05.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-dean-myers"
name: "Walter Dean Myers"
slug: "walter-dean-myers"
description: "Walter Dean Myers was an American writer best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and raised in Harlem, New York City. A difficult childhood inspired him to write, and his teachers encouraged writing as a way to express himself. Myers wrote more than one hundred books, including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. due to its adult language and its realistic portrayal of the Vietnam War."
tagline: "American writer (1937–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Dean_Myers_Naypl_Ambassador.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-08-12"
deathDate: "2014-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.51
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.991365333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.walterdeanmyers.net"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "والتر دين مايرز"
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    title: "والتر دين مايرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر دین میرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dean_Myers"
    title: "Walter Dean Myers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ウォルター・ディーン・マイヤーズ"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dean_Myers"
    title: "Walter Dean Myers"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7964666"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump