Walter Dean Myers





Walter Dean Myers

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

gender
male

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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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“Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.”
Walter Dean Myers, Slam!

“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!

“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

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