
Walter Dean Myers
214 Total Resources 10 Lifetime Achievement Awards 123 Total Book Awards 76 Books
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Meet-the-Author Movie with Walter Dean Myers
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Walter Dean Myers reads from Autobiography of My Dead Brother
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Walter Dean Myers reads from Bad Boy: A Memoir
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Fallen Angels
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Darius & Twig
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Slam!
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Somewhere in the Darkness
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Now Is Your Time!
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Motown and Didi
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Malcolm X
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about The Young Landlords
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Sunrise Over Fallujah
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Game
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Monster
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Walter Dean Myers about Lockdown
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Walter Dean Myers
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Author Interviews 29

Meet-the-Author Movie with Walter Dean Myers
Created by TeachingBooks

Walter Dean Myers reads from Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Created by TeachingBooks

Walter Dean Myers reads from Bad Boy: A Memoir
Created by TeachingBooks

Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, 2009, given by Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Children’s Literature Legacy Award Speech given by Christopher Myers on behalf of Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Fallen Angels
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Fallen Angels
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Interview with Christopher and Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
Created by Library of Congress

Interview with Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
Created by HarperKids

Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Malcolm X
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Jazz
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Monster
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
Created by National Book Festival

Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Just Write
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about We Are America
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Dope Sick
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Lockdown
Created by Rita Lorraine Hubbard

Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Bad Boy
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about Autobiography of My Dead Brother
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers about The Harlem Hellfighters
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Lifetime Achievement Awards 10

St. Katharine Drexel Award, 1970-2023
Winner, 2008

ALAN Award, 1976-2023
Winner, 1994
Books by Walter Dean Myers 76



We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart
by Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers
30 Resources1 Award



Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
23 Resources5 Awards


Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
by Walter Dean Myers and Floyd Cooper
22 Resources3 Awards

145th Street: Short Stories
20 Resources3 Awards

Somewhere in the Darkness
19 Resources4 Awards

Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
19 Resources2 Awards

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
18 Resources3 Awards





Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
16 Resources2 Awards


What They Found: Love on 145th Street
15 Resources1 Award

Angel to Angel: A Mother's Gift of Love
15 Resources1 Award


Brown Angels: An Album of Pictures and Verse
14 Resources1 Award

Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers and Jacob Lawrence
14 Resources2 Awards

Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
13 Resources1 Award

Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid
13 Resources1 Award

Glorious Angels: A Celebration of Children
13 Resources1 Award

Series by Walter Dean Myers1
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