Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)
Auteur de Monster
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Walter Dean Myers
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 (1999) 1,134 exemplaires, 21 critiques
At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess In Victorian England (1999) 961 exemplaires, 16 critiques
The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy, The Chisholm Trail, 1871 (1999) 638 exemplaires, 16 critiques
The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948 (2001) 593 exemplaires, 9 critiques
I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2003) 161 exemplaires, 17 critiques
A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of Vietnam (Stories of America) (1992) — Auteur — 45 exemplaires, 1 critique
Monster Teen Impulse Story 4 exemplaires
Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers(2002-05-07) 3 exemplaires
the outsider 1 exemplaire
Ace Crime Detective 1 exemplaire
The glory field 1 exemplaire
Journal of Joshua Lopes, The ( A black cowboy) 1 exemplaire
Monstrul 1 exemplaire
Paperback Plus Teacher's Resource Guided Reading Mop Moondance and the Nagasaki Knights (Invitations to Literacy,… (1996) 1 exemplaire
The magic forest 1 exemplaire
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Brother 1 exemplaire
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, The Journal of James Edmond Pease & The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, (My… (2000) 1 exemplaire
Monster Student Packet Grades 9-12 (Activities to Teach Reading, Thinking, and Writing) (2019) 1 exemplaire
Me Mop and the Moondance Kid 1 exemplaire
Now is your time! The African-American struggle 1 exemplaire
Sweet Illusions [2/1/1987] Walter Dean Myers 1 exemplaire
The Golden Serpent 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Contributeur — 320 exemplaires, 6 critiques
When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up (1996) — Contributeur — 231 exemplaires, 1 critique
No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices (1997) — Contributeur — 140 exemplaires
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Contributeur — 98 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Every Man for Himself: Ten Original Stories About Being a Guy (2005) — Contributeur — 95 exemplaires, 7 critiques
The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope (2001) — Contributeur — 89 exemplaires, 6 critiques
Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are (2003) — Contributeur — 85 exemplaires
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributeur — 79 exemplaires
Center Stage: One-Act Plays for Teenage Readers and Actors (1990) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires, 1 critique
From One Experience to Another: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction (1997) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Don't Give Up the Ghost: A Book of Ghost Stories (1993) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires, 2 critiques
This Family Is Driving Me Crazy: Ten Stories About Surviving Your Family (2009) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Autres noms
- Myers, Walter Milton (birth name)
Williams, Stacie
Johnson, Stacie - Date de naissance
- 1937-08-12
- Date de décès
- 2014-07-01
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- West Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Harlem, New York, USA - Professions
- writer
- Relations
- Myers, Christopher (son)
- Organisations
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI|Board of Advisors)
- Prix et distinctions
- 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)
Membres
Discussions
Monster by Walter Dean Myer à EDE3343 Teaching Adol Lit MS Sp 2012 (Janvier 2012)
Critiques
Bad Boy: A Memoir par 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.
Listes
Carole's List (1)
Music (1)
African American (1)
Youth: BLM (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 153
- Aussi par
- 30
- Membres
- 33,547
- Popularité
- #575
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 1,192
- ISBN
- 1,119
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 21
