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by Walter Dean Myers. In a memoir that is gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers travels back to his roots in the magical world of Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Here is the story of one of the most distinguished writers of young people’s literature today. “A thoughtful, cautionary and inspiring tale.”
Walter Dean Myers1937–. (Born Walter Milton Myers; has also published as Walter M. Myers) American poet, memoirist, biographer, historian, and author of picture books, juvenile nonfiction, and young adult novels. The following entry presents an overview of Myers's career through 2005.
Aug 12, 2013 · He visited schools to speak to children, teachers, librarians, and parents. For three years he led a writing workshop for children in a school in Jersey City, New Jersey. Walter Dean Myers was married, had three grown children and lived in Jersey City, New Jersey. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness. He was 76 years old.
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.
Walter Dean Myers is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for young people, and has penned a masterful, even-handed biography of Malcolm X for young readers. Leonard Jenkins, illustrator of Sunflower Island by Carol Greene, brings his bold, beautiful, collage-style paintings to the life of a man whose fire burned brightly and went out too quickly.
Jan 3, 2012 · Born Walter Milton Myers in West Virginia in 1937, he was given away by his father to a couple, Florence and Herbert Dean, after his mother died when he was a small child.
Jul 2, 2014 · Walter Dean Myers, the award-winning children's author best known for his many novels that portray the often difficult life experiences of young African-Americans, died on July 1 following a brief ...
