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 wrote full time after 1977. Walter wrote from childhood, first finding success in 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. He published over seventy books for children and young adults. He received many awards for his work in this field including the Coretta Scott King Award, five times. Two of his books were awarded Newbery Honors. He was awarded the Margaret A. Edwards Award and the Virginia Hamilton Award. For one of his books, Monster, he received the first Michael Printz Award for Young Adult literature awarded by the American Library Association. Monster and Autobiography of My Dead Brother were selected as National Book Award Finalists. In addition to the publication of his books, Walter contributed to educational and literary publications. He visited schools to speak to children, teachers, librarians, and parents. For three years he led a writing workshop for children in a school in Jersey City, New Jersey. Walter Dean Myers was married, had three grown children and lived in Jersey City, New Jersey. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness. He was 76 years old.
Series
Books
Angel to Angel
A Mother's Gift of Love
1998
Game
2008
Riot
2009
Amistad
A Long Road to Freedom
1998
Slam!
1996
Three Swords for Granada
2002
Scorpions, 25th Anniversary Edition
1988
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
2005
A Star Is Born
2012
Jazz
2000
Taking Aim
Power and Pain, Teens and Guns
2015
Pirate
2011
Looking Like Me
2009
The Get Over
2013
Young Martin's Promise
1992
Fresh Ink
2018
I've Seen the Promised Land
The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2003
Frederick Douglass
The Lion Who Wrote History
2017
Amiri & Odette
A Love Story
2009
Lockdown
2010
A Time To Love
Stories From The Old Testament
2003
The Legend of Tarik
1981
Carmen
2011
Shooter
2004
Dope Sick
2000
Kick
2011
Handbook for Boys
2002
Monster
1999
Harlem
1997
Darnell Rock Reporting
1994
The Treasure of Lemon Brown
2025
Checkmate
2011
IT AINT ALL FOR NOTHIN
1978
Blues Journey
2003
145th Street
Short Stories
2001
Toussant L'Ouverture
The Fight for Haiti's Freedom
1996
How Mr. Monkey Saw the Whole World
1996
Darius & Twig
2013
Somewhere in the Darkness
1992
Juba!
2015
Won't Know Till I Get There
1982
One More River to Cross
An African American Photograph Album
1995
At Her Majesty's Request
An African Princess in Victorian England
1999
All the Right Stuff
2012
The Story of the Three Kingdoms
1995
Smiffy Blue
Ace Crime Detective : the Case of the Missing Ruby and Other Stories
1996
We Are America
A Tribute from the Heart
2011
Looking for the Easy Life
2011
Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid
1988
Bad Boy
A Memoir
2001
Shadow of the Red Moon
1995
The Young Landlords
1979
Street Love
2006
On a Clear Day
2014
The Cruisers
2010
Malcolm X
By Any Means Necessary
1993
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
1975
The Dragon Takes a Wife
1972
Here in Harlem
Poems in Many Voices
2004
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
2017
Malcolm X
A Fire Burning Brightly
2000
Ida B. Wells
Let the Truth Be Told
2008
What They Found
Love on 145th Street
2007
Monster
A Graphic Novel
2015
The Beast
2003
RIGHTEOUS REVENGE ARTEMIS B
1992
Muhammad Ali
The People's Champion
2009
The Blues of Flats Brown
2000
Just Write
Here's How!
2012
The Harlem Hellfighters
When Pride Met Courage
2005
Harlem Summer
2007
The Outside Shot
1984
Brown Angels
An Album of Pictures and Verse
1993
Hoops
1981
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins
1999
Patrol
An American Soldier in Vietnam
2002
The Journal of Joshua Loper
A Black Cowboy, The Chisholm Trail, 1871
1999
Mop, Moondance and the Nagasaki Knights
1992
Crystal
1987
Oh, Snap!
2013
The Journal of Biddy Owens
2001
Glorious Angels
A Celebration of Children
1995
The Dream Bearer
2003
MOUSE RAP
1990
Tags
2013
Now Is Your Time!
The African-American Struggle for Freedo
1991
Sunrise Over Fallujah
2008
Invasion
2013
Fallen Angels
1983
Motown and Didi
1984
The Greatest
Muhammad Ali
2001
Antarctica
2004
The Glory Field
1994
