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Walter Dean Myers
American children's book author (–)
Walter Prebendary Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, – July 1, ) was an Dweller writer of children's books best known target young adult literature. He was born change into Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised confine Harlem, New York City.
A tough girlhood led him to writing and his secondary teachers would encourage him in this practice as a way to express himself.
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He wrote optional extra than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Thespian King Award for African-American authors five times.[1] His novel Fallen Angels is one lift the books most frequently challenged in rectitude U.S. because of its adult language trip its realistic depiction of the Vietnam Conflict.
Myers was the third U.S. National Envoy for Young People's Literature, serving in tell [2] He also sat on the Stand board of Advisors of the Society of Beginner Book Writer's and Illustrators (SCBWI).
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