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General Information:
Full Name: Walter Dean Myers
Biography:
(1937-2014) Author. Walter Dean Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1937 (Unknown) County
Walter Milton Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August 12, 1937. 
2014 New York County
Walter Dean Myers died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, New York, on July 1, 2014. 
1999 (Unknown) County
Monster
(Pub: Harper Collins Publishers ISBN: 0060280778 / 978-0060280772)
Novel for young readers. 
2010 (Unknown) County
Lockdown
(Pub: Amistad ISBN: 0061214809 / 978-0061214806)
Novel for young readers. 
2008 (Unknown) County
Fallen Angels
(Pub: Perfection Learning ISBN: 0756987970 / 978-0756987978)
Novel for young readers. 
1939 New York County
When Mr. Myers was a very small child his mother died and he was sent to live with his father's first wife, Florence Dean, and her husband, Herbert Dean, in Harlem, Manhattan, New York. Mr. Myers took the pen name Walter Dean Myers in their honor.  
2001 (Unknown) County
Bad Boy
(Pub: Amistad ISBN: 0060295244 / 978-0060295240)
Memoir. 
1969 (Unknown) County
Where Does The Day Go?
(Pub: Parents' Magazine Press ISBN: 0819303178 / 978-0819303172)
Children's book. 
2012 (Unknown) County
Just Write: Here's How!
(Pub: HarperTeen ISBN: 0062203894 / 978-0062203892)
Instructional. 
1996 (Unknown) County
Slam!
(Pub: Scholastic ISBN: 0614253845 / 978-0614253849)
Novel for young readers. 
2012 (Unknown) County
Hoops
(Pub: Ember ISBN: 0307976114 / 978-0307976116)
Novel for young readers. 
2008 (Unknown) County
Game
(Pub: HarperTeen ISBN: 0060582944 / 978-0060582944)
Novel for young readers. 
1986 (Unknown) County
The Outside Shot
(Pub: Perfection Learning ISBN: 0812448995 / 978-0812448993)
Novel for young readers. 
? New York County
Mr. Myers attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, New York. 
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