Walter Dean Myers
August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014
USA Today says:
"Whenever Walter Dean Myers wrote a book — and he published nearly 100 of them for children and teens — he would ask his wife, Connie, to assemble a collage of related images that he hung above his desk.
'I like to look up and have my characters looking back at me,' Myers told USA TODAY in a 2008 interview at his home in Jersey City.
Myers, whose award-winning novels and non-fiction chronicled urban life, war and African-American history, died Tuesday at the age of 76.
His gritty and realistic novels for teens include Fallen Angels (1988) about the
Myers is survived by his wife and two sons. Several books by Myers are forthcoming, including Juba!, (to be released in April 2015), a novel for teens based on the life of a young African American dancer."
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/07/02/walter-dean-myers/12107821/
