Welcome. I think my life is special. In a way it seems odd that I spend all of my time doing only what I love, which is writing or thinking about writing.

Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers, August 12, 1937, Martinsburg, West Virginia) is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written ...

I was born on a Thursday, the 12th of August, 1937, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. My name at birth was Walter Milton Myers. For some strange reason I was given to a ...

Walter Dean Myers is the beloved and outstanding author of such children's and young adult books as Fallen Angels, Somewhere in the Darkness, Slam!, and Harlem, among ...

LEARNING ABOUT WALTER DEAN MYERS Compiled by: Marilyn Fischer, Carol Levandowski, Carol Marlowe, and Barbara Snyder with Kay E. Vandergrift in the Young ...

Walter Dean Myers (1937-) (Walter M. Myers) Called 'one of today's most important authors of young adult literature' by Rudine Sims Bishop in Presenting

A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Author interviews, book reviews and lively ...

JERSEY CITY — On the rough-edged streets of Harlem in the 1940s, the young Walter Dean Myers knew better than to carry his library books where other ...

Walter Dean Myers discovered he loved to write when he was in fifth grade. His teacher required that all her students read in front of the class.

Walter Dean Myers is the winner of this first-[2010] Coretta Scott King ' Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Walter Dean Myers, 74, was named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in January by the Library of Congress. Since then the award-winning author of more than 50 books, including the best-seller Monster (Amistad, 1999), has been ...

"You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read." - Walter Dean Myers He grew up in Harlem in the late 1930s, a foster child who taught himself to read by the age of 5 and started writing stories and poems shortly thereafter. Despite ...

Nationally renowned author Walter Dean Myers will lead a free community discussion from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday on his “Reading Is Not Optional” message in the Dana Brown Mainstage Theater at R.A. Long High School. Myers is the author of more than 100 ...

Honorary chairman Walter Dean Myers and his son will share auctioneer duties for BEA's Children's Art Auction. Live bidding will be opened for several rare items, including the dummy used in the production of Rosemary Wells’s new Max and Ruby book ...

HUDSON — On Saturday, more than 80 popular authors and illustrators, including the national ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers, will travel to the city of Hudson for the fourth annual Hudson Children’s Book Festival.

The Library of Congress has a lot of information on its Web site about getting kids to read, including some on its national ambassador for young people’s literature, who, for 2012-13, is Walter Dean Myers, author of works that include “Sunri ...

Walter Dean Myers, the honorary event chair, will share auctioneer duties with his son, Christopher, illustrator of many of his father’s books. A preview of some of the more than 70 pieces of art donated to the auction are available for viewing on flickr.

This year, the HCBF was able to snag Walter Dean Myers, the new national ambassador for Young People’s Literature. The two-time Newbery Honor Award and five-time Coretta Scott King Award recipient will kick off the festival at 10 a.m. with the ...

Peter Gitau: Associate vice chancellor and dean of students, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill. ■ Walter Johnson ... Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Fla. ■ Ashok Roy: Assistant vice president for finance, Kennesaw ...

She insisted a library was more important than computers, and carefully selected titles that would appeal to reluctant readers, ranging from non-fiction books about cougars to novels by Walter Dean Myers about incarcerated youths. "I didn't have the ...