Walter Dean Myers
215 Total Resources 8 Lifetime Achievement Awards 123 Total Book Awards 76 Books
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Meet-the-Author Movie with Walter Dean Myers
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Walter Dean Myers reads from Autobiography of My Dead Brother
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Walter Dean Myers reads from Bad Boy: A Memoir
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Fallen Angels
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Darius & Twig
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Slam!
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Somewhere in the Darkness
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Now Is Your Time!
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Motown and Didi
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Malcolm X
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about The Young Landlords
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Sunrise Over Fallujah
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Game
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Monster
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Lockdown
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Walter Dean Myers
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Author Interviews 38
Meet-the-Author Movie with Walter Dean Myers
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Walter Dean Myers reads from Autobiography of My Dead Brother
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Walter Dean Myers reads from Bad Boy: A Memoir
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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On promoting reading and education with Walter Dean Myers
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On re-engaging teens in their communities with Walter Dean Myers
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On how schools are using his books with Walter Dean Myers
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On his pre-writing formula with Walter Dean Myers
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On being a teen with Walter Dean Myers
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May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, 2009, given by Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Children’s Literature Legacy Award Speech given by Christopher Myers on behalf of Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Sunrise Over Fallujah
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On the book's inspiration with Walter Dean Myers about Dope Sick
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On who Kelly is with Walter Dean Myers about Dope Sick
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Fallen Angels
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Fallen Angels
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Interview with Christopher and Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Malcolm X
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Jazz
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Monster
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Just Write
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Dope Sick
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Lockdown
Created by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Bad Boy
Created by Bound to Stay Bound
Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Autobiography of My Dead Brother
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about The Harlem Hellfighters
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Lifetime Achievement Awards 8
NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 2003-2025
Finalist, 2013
St. Katharine Drexel Award, 1970-2024
Winner, 2008
ALAN Award, 1976-2023
Winner, 1994
Books by Walter Dean Myers 76
We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart
by Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers
26 Resources1 Award
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
21 Resources5 Awards
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
by Walter Dean Myers and Floyd Cooper
20 Resources3 Awards
Somewhere in the Darkness
17 Resources4 Awards
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
16 Resources3 Awards
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
16 Resources2 Awards
145th Street: Short Stories
16 Resources3 Awards
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
14 Resources2 Awards
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
13 Resources1 Award
Angel to Angel: A Mother's Gift of Love
13 Resources1 Award
Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse
12 Resources1 Award
Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers and Jacob Lawrence
12 Resources2 Awards
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
11 Resources1 Award
Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid
11 Resources1 Award
Glorious Angels: A Celebration of Children
11 Resources1 Award
Series by Walter Dean Myers1
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