Five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner WALTER DEAN MYERS was the acclaimed author of a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction for young people. His nonfiction includes We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart; Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom; I’ve Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly; and Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam, a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award winner. His illustrious list of young adult novels includes Darius & Twig; All the Right Stuff; Lockdown; Dope Sick; Autobiography of My Dead Brother; New York Times bestseller Monster, the first winner of the Michael L. Printz Award; and many more. He was a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Learn more about him online at www.walterdeanmyers.net and www.who-is-america.com.
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