Walter Dean Myers grew up in Harlem ... But as he tells his son, Christopher, there was one person Myers always wanted his writing to impress: his dad. "He bought you a typewriter at one point ...

The engine of this factory, as he himself calls it, is Walter Dean MyersAnd yet ... home is evident in much of Myers' work, including his memoir, "Bad Boy." His father was a hard-working man ...

Frequent father-son collaborators Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers celebrate the history, people, and spirit of this country in We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart, released by Collins ...

Friends, family members, colleagues, and those otherwise touched by the work of Walter Dean ... Myers, who reflected throughout the night on the gifts given to him by his father, while also ...

Growing up in Harlem in the 1940s, Walter Dean Myers didn't have it easy. His uncle was murdered when he was 14, sending his foster father spiraling into deep depression and alcoholism ...

and his father, George, sent Walter and his brother Mickey to stay with a Harlem couple he knew, Florence and Herbert Dean. (Florence was George Myers' first wife. In tribute to the parents who ...

He was born Walter Milton Myers on Aug. 12, 1937, in Martinsburg, W.Va. After the death of his mother, his father sent his son to live with his first wife, Florence Dean, and her husband ...

Like many of the protagonists in his dozens of young adult books, Walter Dean Myers was once a troubled ... He’s married, the father of three children and the son of Guatemalan immigrants.

Celebrated author Walter ... Myers was the author of Monster, Hoops, Won’t Know Till I Get There, and over 100 other books. Born in Virginia, Myers was raised by his biological father ...