Myers wrote for men’s adventure magazines, then won a Writers Digest contest sponsored by the Council for Interracial Books for Children with his story Where Does The Day Go?, in 1969. After serving in the United States Army from 1957 to 1960, Myers worked at the Harlem Post Office and the New York State Department of Labor he also attended classes at City College of New York, Columbia University, and at SUNY Empire State College, where he graduated in 1984.Įncouraged by John Oliver Killens, Myers published his first poem in the Delta Review in 1962. 125 and JHS 143, but dropped out of Stuyvesant High School twice once in 1952, and again in 1954. Growing up on 121st and Morningside in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Myers, a troubled youth, struggled with a speech impediment but loved to read. At age two, Myers’s mother, Mary Green, died, and Florence Brown Dean, his father’s ex-wife and her husband, Herbert Dean, raised him.
Author of over seventy children’s and young adult books, Walter Dean Myers was born Walter Milton Myers on August 12, 1937, in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
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