Friends, family members, colleagues, and those otherwise touched by the work of Walter Dean Myers gathered ... not through sober reflections, but by sharing their own work. Myers emphasized ...

“We Are America: A Tribute From the Heart” by Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers. All ages. $16.99. What does it mean be to be an American? That was one of the questions on people’s ...

is Walter Dean MyersAnd yet, for all his work, he is not a kid-lit star like fantasy writers J.K. Rowling or Daniel Handler, a k a Lemony Snicket. Elevating the language Myers spends his days ...

Walter Dean Myers grew up in Harlem, the son of a janitor. He became an author, writing young adult fiction that's especially popular with teenage readers. But as he tells his son, Christopher ...

Like many of the protagonists in his dozens of young adult books, Walter Dean Myers was once a troubled, sensitive and intelligent young man living an aimless life. A writer’s heart beat in his ...

Whenever Walter Dean Myers wrote a book — and he published nearly 100 of them for children and teens — he would ask his wife, Connie, to assemble a collage of related images that he hung above ...

Myers died after a brief illness. He was 76. I will never forget an interview we did two years ago with Walter Dean Myers, an award-winning children's author. He was talking about how some kids ...

But after finishing Walter Dean Myers' "Monster," a classic young adult novel about a teen on trial for being an accomplice to murder, Swinney had done more than win a race. She had discovered a ...

Walter Dean Myers has come a long way from being a boy with a speech problem who got teased in school — and then got into fights. On Tuesday, Myers, the author of more than 100 books for kids ...

We recently reported the sad news that famed children’s author Walter Dean Myers passed away last week at the age of 76. He was known for his gritty tales of urban life for teenage boys.

2002-10-19T08:16:14-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fb1/20021019082637002_hd.jpgWriter Walter Dean Myers reads aloud his story Patrol. Writer Walter Dean Myers ...