Walter Dean Myers, father of four, lived with his wife in Jersey City, New Jersey. His books include Harlem, Scorpions, Somewhere in the Darkness, and Blues Journey. Myers has since become one of the country’s most popular African American writers for children and teens. His entry, Where does a day go?, became his first published children’s book. Myers published articles in journals and magazines, but the biggest break of his career occurred in 1969, when he won a contest organized by the Council on Interracial Books for Children. Whether he was loading trucks or working at the post office, he usually found time to write at night. Myers later dropped out of high school and joined the army on his 17th birthday.Īs a young adult, Walter Myers worked odd jobs, but he never stopped writing. At the age of nine, he began to express himself through writing poems and short stories. Frustrated and tired of being taunted, Myers often found himself in fights. Walter Myers grew up with a speech impediment that made it difficult for him to communicate with others. Walter’s foster mother, a half-Indian and half-German woman, taught him how to read. Growing up, he spent a lot of his time on the basketball court and in the public library. At age three, Walter moved to Harlem with his new foster family, the Deans. When he was only two years old, his mother died. Walter Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1937.
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