Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)
Autore di Monster
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Walter Dean Myers
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 (1999) 1,134 copie, 21 recensioni
The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy, The Chisholm Trail, 1871 (1999) 638 copie, 16 recensioni
The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948 (2001) 592 copie, 9 recensioni
I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2003) 161 copie, 17 recensioni
A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of Vietnam (Stories of America) (1992) — Autore — 45 copie, 1 recensione
Monster Teen Impulse Story 4 copie
the outsider 1 copia
Ace Crime Detective 1 copia
The glory field 1 copia
Monstrul 1 copia
Paperback Plus Teacher's Resource Guided Reading Mop Moondance and the Nagasaki Knights (Invitations to Literacy,… (1996) 1 copia
The magic forest 1 copia
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, The Journal of James Edmond Pease & The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, (My… (2000) 1 copia
Monster Student Packet Grades 9-12 (Activities to Teach Reading, Thinking, and Writing) (2019) 1 copia
Me Mop and the Moondance Kid 1 copia
The Golden Serpent 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (2011) — Collaboratore — 871 copie, 46 recensioni
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Collaboratore — 320 copie, 6 recensioni
When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up (1996) — Collaboratore — 231 copie, 1 recensione
No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices (1997) — Collaboratore — 140 copie
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Collaboratore — 98 copie, 2 recensioni
Every Man for Himself: Ten Original Stories About Being a Guy (2005) — Collaboratore — 95 copie, 7 recensioni
The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope (2001) — Collaboratore — 89 copie, 6 recensioni
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Collaboratore — 79 copie
Center Stage: One-Act Plays for Teenage Readers and Actors (1990) — Collaboratore — 48 copie, 1 recensione
From One Experience to Another: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction (1997) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
This Family Is Driving Me Crazy: Ten Stories About Surviving Your Family (2009) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Altri nomi
- Myers, Walter Milton (birth name)
Williams, Stacie
Johnson, Stacie - Data di nascita
- 1937-08-12
- Data di morte
- 2014-07-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- West Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Harlem, New York, USA - Attività lavorative
- writer
- Relazioni
- Myers, Christopher (son)
- Organizzazioni
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI|Board of Advisors)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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)
Utenti
Discussioni
Monster by Walter Dean Myer in EDE3343 Teaching Adol Lit MS Sp 2012 (Gennaio 2012)
Recensioni
Bad Boy: A Memoir di Walter Dean Myers
A story of finding oneself and finally "making it " as a male writer (who happens to be black) .
I have mixed feelings about this book. This is a great story, and one that has a lot of contemporary resonance. That is absolutely maintained in this version. Graphically, however, I think I was a little let down. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. The black and white lines were sometimes a little hard to follow on a small detail level, and I just had trouble becoming absorbed in the visual world. In the end, I would still choose the novel over this version.
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
Liste
Carole's List (1)
Music (1)
African American (1)
Youth: BLM (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 153
- Opere correlate
- 30
- Utenti
- 33,544
- Popolarità
- #575
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 1,192
- ISBN
- 1,119
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 21
