It Ain't All for Nothin'
Five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Walter Dean Myers is the acclaimed author of a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction for young people. His nonfiction includesWe Are America: A Tribute from the Heart;Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom;I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.;Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told;Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly; andPatrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam, a Jane Addams Children's Book Award winner. His illustrious list of young adult novels includesDarius & Twig;All the Right Stuff;Lockdown;Dope Sick;Autobiography of My Dead Brother;New York TimesbestsellerMonster, the first winner of the Michael L. Printz Award; and many more. He was the 2012-2013 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.