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Name: Walter Dean Myers
Variant Name: Walter M. Myers, Walter Milton Myers
Birth Date: August 12, 1937
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Walter Dean Myers
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Although Walter Dean Myers has published articles and short stories in the Liberator, Black World, and Black Arts South , his primary achievement is the juvenile books in which he attempts to touch the lives of black children. In 1969 Myers began...


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Walter Dean Myers Information
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Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Myers August 12, 1937, West Virginia, raised in Harlem) is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written dozens of books, including novels and non-fiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King...


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The Book Report
A profile: Walter Dean Myers.
09/01/2001: 1,806 words, approx. 6 pages
Walter Dean Myers grew up down the block from Langston Hughes and clearly remembers the day Hughes chased his brother down the streets of Harlem for throwing a candy wrapper into Hughes' tiny garden plot. Not until Myers was an adult did he...
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The Book Report
Myers, Walter Dean Handbook for Boys: a Novel.
11/01/2002: 326 words, approx. 1 pages
2002. 192pp. $15.95 hc. HarperCollins. 0-06-029146-X. Grade 7 & Up Harlem teen Jimmy Lynch, who doesn't back away from a fight, is sentenced to serve his probation working afternoons at Duke's barbershop, where Duke and feisty friends Cap and Mr. M (Morales)...
 


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Monster
563 words, approx. 2 pages
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, is about a 16 year old Harlem boy named Steve Harmon. Steve gets tried for murder in a court of law because he supposedly was involved in the burglary/shooting of Mr. Nesbit, the convenience store clerk.


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