Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)
Forfatter af Monster
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Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsberg, West Virginia. When he was three years old, his mother died and his father sent him to live with Herbert and Florence Dean in Harlem, New York. He began writing stories while in his teens. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in vis mere the Army at the age of 17. After completing his army service, he took a construction job and continued to write. He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness, at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Serier
Værker af Walter Dean Myers
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 (1999) 1,084 eksemplarer
A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of Vietnam (Stories of America) (1905) — Forfatter — 44 eksemplarer
Monster Teen Impulse Story 4 eksemplarer
Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers(2002-05-07) 3 eksemplarer
We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins 2 eksemplarer
Now is your time! The African-American struggle 1 eksemplar
Monster Student Packet Grades 9-12 (Activities to Teach Reading, Thinking, and Writing) (2019) 1 eksemplar
Paperback Plus Teacher's Resource Guided Reading Mop Moondance and the Nagasaki Knights (Invitations to Literacy,… (1996) 1 eksemplar
The magic forest 1 eksemplar
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Brother 1 eksemplar
Journal of Joshua Lopes, The ( A black cowboy) 1 eksemplar
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, The Journal of James Edmond Pease & The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, (My… (2000) 1 eksemplar
The Cruisers 1 eksemplar
Ace Crime Detective 1 eksemplar
The glory field 1 eksemplar
the outsider 1 eksemplar
18 pine st. 1 eksemplar
Monstrul 1 eksemplar
Me Mop and the Moondance Kid 1 eksemplar
The Golden Serpent 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (2011) — Bidragyder — 859 eksemplarer
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Bidragyder — 316 eksemplarer
When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up (1996) — Bidragyder — 225 eksemplarer
No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices (1997) — Bidragyder — 138 eksemplarer
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Bidragyder — 97 eksemplarer
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Bidragyder — 73 eksemplarer
From One Experience to Another: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction (1997) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
This Family Is Driving Me Crazy: Ten Stories About Surviving Your Family (2009) — Bidragyder — 27 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Andre navne
- Myers, Walter Milton (birth name)
Williams, Stacie
Johnson, Stacie - Fødselsdato
- 1937-08-12
- Dødsdag
- 2014-07-01
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- West Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Harlem, New York, USA - Erhverv
- writer
- Relationer
- Myers, Christopher (son)
- Organisationer
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI|Board of Advisors)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Margaret A. Edwards Award (1994)
Michael L. Printz Award (2000)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2009)
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award (2010)
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2012-2013)
Children's Literature Legacy Award (2019)
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Monster by Walter Dean Myer i EDE3343 Teaching Adol Lit MS Sp 2012 (januar 2012)
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- Sprog
- 7
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