"Author's View." Scholastic Book Talk (Spring 1992): 6. Scholastic puts out promotional material about authors and books in connection with book sales. Although it helps to sell books, it is also helpful for teachers.
Bishop, Rudine Sims. Presenting Walter Dean Myers. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
As an adjunct to the reading of Scorpions, students may be interested in knowing something about the author and what brought him to write the book. It could be used for a special report, or a teacher could use it as a part of his or her presentation of the novel.
——. "Profile: Walter Dean Myers."
Language Arts 67 (December 1990): 862-866. This is a shortened version of Bishop's book listed above. In order to do the book and the article he had a personal interview and several.....
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