Walter Dean Myers
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican writer (1937-2014)
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.
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Jacqueline WoodsonAlso won National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
Virginia HamiltonAlso won Children's Literature Legacy Award
Jason ReynoldsAlso won Coretta Scott King Award
David LevithanAlso won Margaret Edwards Award
Meg RosoffAlso won Michael L. Printz Award
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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.
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