Walter Dean Myers is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written over fifty books, including novels and nonfiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. One of his novels, Fallen Angels, has made the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books, due to adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. He currently sits on the Board of Advisors of the Society of Children's Book Writer's and Illustrators Myers was the first winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, for Monster. He won... the Margaret Edwards Award in 1994. Where Does the Day Go? Council on Interracial Books for Children Award, 1968 . ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 1993. Myers is a three-time finalist for the National Book Award. He was nominated in 1999 for Monster and in 2005 for Autobiography of My Dead Brother. He is a 2010 finalist for Lockdown.
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