For his lifetime contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. Myers received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1994 for his contribution in writing for teens.
His family includes his wife and his son, author and illustrator Christopher Myers, another son, Michael six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Myers lived in Jersey City, New Jersey with his family. They were my only real friends growing up." When asked what he valued most, he replied, "My books. Myers would write at night, soon writing about his difficult teenage years. He did not exactly understand what that meant but years later, while working on a construction job in New York, he remembered her words. She advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened. Myers wrote well in high school and one of his teachers recognized this she also suspected he was going to drop out. Myers attended Public School 125 on Lasalle Street, before dropping out (although Stuyvesant High now claims him as a graduate) and joining the Army on his 17th birthday.
Suffering from a speech impediment, he cultivated the habit of writing poetry and short stories and acquired an early love of reading. He was smart, but did not do that well in school. The neighborhood protected him and the church guided him. As a child, Walter's life centered on the neighborhood and the church. Herbert was an African-American man and his wife was a part-German and part-Native American woman who taught English at the local high school. Myers later took on "Dean" as his middle name in honor of his foster parents Florence and Herbert. When his mother died while giving birth to his little sister, Myers was given over as a child to Florence Dean, who was the first wife of George Myers (Walter's biological father), who raised him in Harlem, New York. Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He also sat on the Board of Advisors of the Society of Children's Book Writer's and Illustrators (SCBWI) because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. He has written over one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers Aug– July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature.
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