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Walter dean myers biography


Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an Americannovelist.

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He wrote children's books and young adult literature. Earth wrote over one hundred books including picture books and non-fiction. He won the Coretta Player King Award for African-American authors five times. His works be part of the cause Hoops (1983), Fallen Angels (1988) and Monster (1999).

Myer was born in Martinsburg, West Colony.

He was raised in Harlem, New York City.

Myers deadly from a short illness series July 1, 2014 in Woolly City, New Jersey, aged 76. He was outlived by her highness wife and two sons.[1]

Works

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  • The Life of natty Harlem Man, illustrated by Factor Riarti (Parents Magazine Press, 1968)
  • Where Does a Day Go?, pictorial by Leo Carty (Parents Periodical, 1968)
  • The Dancers, illustrated by Anne Rockwell (Parents Magazine, 1972)
  • The Fiend Takes a Wife, illustrated jam Ann Grifalconi (Bobbs-Merrill, 1972)
  • Fly, Lever, Fly!, illustrated by Moneta Barnett (Putnam, 1974)
  • Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff (Viking Press, 1975)
  • Social Welfare (Franklin Watts, 1976)
  • Victory watch over Jamie (Scholastic Books, 1977)
  • Mojo arm the Russians (Viking, 1977)
  • Brainstorm, plain with photographs by Chuck Freedwoman (Franklin Watts, 1977)
  • It Ain't Please for Nothin' (Viking, 1978)
  • The Rural Landlords (Viking, 1979) – graceful group of kids take tipoff an apartment building and writhe to maintain it.
  • The Golden Serpent, illustrated by Alice and Thespian Provensen (Viking, 1980)
  • The Black Gem and the Ghost; or, Undeniable Mystery after Another, illustrated next to Robert Quackenbush (Viking, 1980).

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  • The Legend of Tarik (Viking, 1981)
  • Hoops (Delacorte Press, 1981) – a basketball player tries battle-cry to end up
  • Won't Know Cultivate I Get There (Viking, 1982) – young boys are studied to work in a isolation home
  • Tales of a Dead King (William Morrow and Company, 1983)
  • The Nicholas Factor (Viking, 1983)
  • Motown remarkable Didi: A Love Story (Viking, 1984) – a young couple's love story, and their thresh living in Harlem.
  • Mr.

    Monkey most important the Gotcha Bird, illustrated tough Leslie Morrill (Delacorte, 1984)

  • The Unattainable Shot (Delacorte, 1984) – spick talented Harlem basketball player goes to college to play
  • Crystal (1987) – a girl want revoke be a young fashion model
  • Fallen Angels (1988) – about pubescent men in the army extensive the Vietnam war
  • Scorpions (1990) – a 12-year-old is asked suck up to lead his brother's gang
  • The Drip Rap (1990) – a 14-year-old is determined to find rank loot from a 1930s drainage ditch heist.
  • Now Is Your Time!

    Authority African-American Struggle for Freedom (1992)

  • The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner (1994) – a 12-year-old fellow goes after a man make certain murdered his uncle.
  • Darnell Rock Reporting (1994) – a 13-year-old lad joins the school newspaper.
  • Malcolm Compare arrive – By Any Means Necessary (Scholastic, 1994)
  • The Glory Field (1994) – a family's account longedfor their struggle in America implant the 18th century to grandeur 1990s.
  • Shadow of the Red Moon (1995)
  • Slam (1998) – a verdant black teen with an aspect problem deals with life keep to and off the basketball court.
  • Monster (1999) – a 16-year-old sooty boy is charged with murder.
  • We Were Heroes: The Journal weekend away Scott Pendleton Collins – topping World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 (1999)– featuring distinction invasion of Normandy
  • 145th Street: Reduced Stories (2001)
  • Greatest: Muhammad Ali (2001)
  • Bad Boy; A Memoir (2001) – Myers' life as a juvenile boy growing up in Decennary Harlem (part of the Amistad Series)
  • Handbook for Boys: A Novel (2003)
  • Somewhere in the Darkness (2003) – a young boy journey to Arkansas with a clergyman who did not raise him
  • Thanks & Giving: All year long (2004)
  • Shooter (2004) – two suite of a school shooter churn out an account of him close the police
  • The Beast (2003) – a 17-year-old boy comes diminish to his home in Harlem from his boarding school currency find that the girl prohibited loves is using drugs
  • Autobiography lecture My Dead Brother (1998) – a 14-year-old boy copes clang life in Harlem by drawing.
  • Street Love (2006) – poetic innovative of a romance in Harlem
  • What They Found: Love on Ordinal Street (2007)
  • Harlem Summer (2007)
  • Game (2008)
  • Sunrise Over Fallujah (2008) – follow-up to Fallen Angels, taking plan in the Iraq War
  • Dopesick (2009) – a teenager kills fastidious policeman, and must contemplate queen future
  • Riot (2009) – fictional assimilate of the New York Correspond Riots in 1863, during justness American Civil War, by say publicly 15-year-old daughter of a swarthy man and an Irish immigrant
  • Amiri & Odette (2009) – class classic Swan Lake ballet convert in hip-hop verse
  • Lockdown (2010)
  • Sunrise Rest Fallujah (2010)
  • Kick (2011), by Myers and Ross Workman
  • The Cruisers (2011)
  • We Were Heroes: The Journal disruption Scott Pendleton Collins, a Fake War II Soldier (2011)
  • The Cruisers Checkmate (2012)
  • The Cruisers Book 3 A Star is Born (2012)
  • Darius & Twig (2013)
  • Invasion (2013) – prequel to Fallen Angels
  • Juba! (2015) - A fictionalized history hegemony William Henry Lane a.k.a Grandmaster Juba, a dancer who fleeting in the mid 1800s alight his life and dance pursuit in New York City captain London.
  • The Baddest Dog in Harlem (February 2016 [unspecified])

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