Walter Dean Myers

**Walter Dean Myers** (born **Walter Milton Myers**; August 12, 1937 &ndash; July 1, 2014) was an American novelist. He wrote children's books and young adult literature. He wrote over one hundred books including picture books and non-fiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His works included *Hoops* (1983), *Fallen Angels* (1988) and *Monster* (1999).

Myer was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He was raised in Harlem, New York City.

Myers died from a short illness on July 1, 2014 in Jersey City, New Jersey, aged 76. He was outlived by his wife and two sons.

## Works 
* *The Life of a Harlem Man*, illustrated by Gene Riarti (Parents Magazine Press, 1968)
* *Where Does a Day Go?*, illustrated by Leo Carty (Parents Magazine, 1968)
* *The Dancers*, illustrated by Anne Rockwell (Parents Magazine, 1972)
* *The Dragon Takes a Wife*, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi (Bobbs-Merrill, 1972)
* *Fly, Jimmy, Fly!*, illustrated by Moneta Barnett (Putnam, 1974)
* *Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff* (Viking Press, 1975)
* *Social Welfare* (Franklin Watts, 1976)
* *Victory for Jamie* (Scholastic Books, 1977)
* *Mojo and the Russians* (Viking, 1977)
* *Brainstorm*, illustrated with photographs by Chuck Freedman (Franklin Watts, 1977)
* ''It Ain't All for Nothin'* (Viking, 1978)
* *The Young Landlords* (Viking, 1979) – a group of kids take over an apartment building and struggle to maintain it.
* *The Golden Serpent*, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen (Viking, 1980)
* *The Black Pearl and the Ghost; or, One Mystery after Another*, illustrated by Robert Quackenbush (Viking, 1980). Mindless Behavior
* *The Legend of Tarik* (Viking, 1981)
* *Hoops* (Delacorte Press, 1981) – a basketball player tries not to end up
* *Won't Know Till I Get There* (Viking, 1982) – young boys are forced to work in a retirement home
* *Tales of a Dead King* (William Morrow and Company, 1983)
* *The Nicholas Factor* (Viking, 1983)
* *Motown and Didi: A Love Story'' (Viking, 1984) – a young couple's love story, and their struggle living in Harlem.
* *Mr. Monkey and the Gotcha Bird*, illustrated by Leslie Morrill (Delacorte, 1984)
* *The Outside Shot* (Delacorte, 1984) – a talented Harlem basketball player goes to college to play
* *Crystal* (1987) – a girl want to be a young fashion model
* *Fallen Angels* (1988) – about young men in the army during the Vietnam war
* *Scorpions* (1990) – a 12-year-old is asked to lead his brother's gang
* *The Mouse Rap* (1990) – a 14-year-old is determined to find the loot from a 1930s bank heist.
* *Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom* (1992)
* *The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner* (1994) – a 12-year-old boy goes after a man that murdered his uncle.
* *Darnell Rock Reporting* (1994) – a 13-year-old boy joins the school newspaper.
* *Malcolm X – By Any Means Necessary* (Scholastic, 1994)
* *The Glory Field* (1994) – a family's account of their struggle in America from the 18th century to the 1990s.
* *Shadow of the Red Moon* (1995)
* *Slam* (1998) – a young black teen with an attitude problem deals with life on and off the basketball court.
* *Monster* (1999) – a 16-year-old black boy is charged with murder.
* *We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins – a World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944* (1999)– featuring the invasion of Normandy
* *145th Street: Short Stories* (2001)
* *Greatest: Muhammad Ali* (2001)
* *Bad Boy; A Memoir* (2001) – Myers' life as a young boy growing up in 1940s Harlem (part of the Amistad Series)
* *Handbook for Boys: A Novel* (2003)
* *Somewhere in the Darkness* (2003) – a young boy travels to Arkansas with a father who did not raise him
* *Thanks & Giving: All year long* (2004)
* *Shooter* (2004) – two friends of a school shooter give an account of him to the police
* *The Beast* (2003) – a 17-year-old boy comes back to his home in Harlem from his boarding school to find that the girl he loves is using drugs
* *Autobiography of My Dead Brother* (1998) – a 14-year-old boy copes with life in Harlem by drawing.
* *Street Love* (2006) – poetic novel of a romance in Harlem
* *What They Found: Love on 145th Street* (2007)
* *Harlem Summer* (2007)
* *Game* (2008)
* *Sunrise Over Fallujah* (2008) – sequel to *Fallen Angels*, taking place in the Iraq War
* *Dopesick* (2009) – a teenager kills a policeman, and must contemplate his future
* *Riot* (2009) – fictional account of the New York Draft Riots in 1863, during the American Civil War, by the 15-year-old daughter of a black man and an Irish immigrant
* *Amiri & Odette* (2009) – the classic *Swan Lake* ballet recast in hip-hop verse
* *Lockdown* (2010)
* *Sunrise Over Fallujah* (2010)
* *Kick* (2011), by Myers and Ross Workman
* *The Cruisers* (2011)
* *We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II Soldier* (2011)
* *The Cruisers Checkmate* (2012)
* *The Cruisers Book 3 A Star is Born* (2012)
* *Darius & Twig* (2013)
* *Invasion* (2013) – prequel to *Fallen Angels*
* *Juba!* (2015) - A fictionalized history of William Henry Lane a.k.a Master Juba, a dancer who lived in the mid 1800s and his life and dance career in New York City and London.
* *The Baddest Dog in Harlem* (February 2016 [unspecified])

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