2014
Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (born 1937)
Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (born 1937)
Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (born 1937)
Walter Dean Myers
American children's book author (1937–2014)
- Died
- 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. 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.