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Walter Dean Myers

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born
August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, The United States

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pseudonyms:
Stacie Williams
Stacie Johnson

Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia but moved to Harlem with his foster parents at age three. He was brought up and went to public school there. He attended Stuyvesant High School until the age of seventeen when he joined the army.

After serving four years in the army, he worked at various jobs and earned a BA from Empire State College. He has been writing full time since 1977.
Walter Dean Myers

Walter has been writing since childhood and publishing since 1969 when he won the Council on Interracial Books for Children contest which resulted in the publication of his first book for children, Where Does the Day Go?, by Parent's Magazine Press. Since then he has publis...more


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Books by Walter Dean Myers

Average rating: 3.69 · 32,431 ratings · 6,685 reviews · 113 distinct works
Monster
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 13,446 ratings — published 1999 — 28 editions
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Fallen Angels
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 3,017 ratings — published 1984 — 11 editions
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Slam!
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,383 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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Sunrise Over Fallujah
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 1,317 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
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Shooter
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 959 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions
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Scorpions
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 941 ratings — published 1988 — 22 editions
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Bad Boy: A Memoir
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions
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Hoops
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 594 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions
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Dope Sick
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions
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The Glory Field
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 1994 — 15 editions
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Series by Walter Dean Myers

The Cruisers Checkmate
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Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Slam!
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“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel. ”
― Walter Dean Myers, Slam!
tags: women
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“It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken”
― Walter Dean Myers, Scorpions
tags: life
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