Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014) was an acclaimed American author best known for young adult literature that explored the African-American experience and urban life. He wrote more than one hundred books across multiple genres including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, winning the Coretta Scott King Award five times and serving as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature from 2012–2013.
young adult fiction
children's literature
poetry
nonfiction
biography
Slam!
All the Right Stuff
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
145th Street: Short Stories
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Scholastic Focus)
Juba!: A Novel
Looking Like Me
Hoops
Lockdown
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Just Write: Here's How!
Invasion
Scorpions
Into No Man's Land: The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty
Hoops
Darius & Twig
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
The Glory Field
On a Clear Day
Darius & Twig
We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II Soldier
Somewhere In The Darkness
The Cruisers
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam