Walter Dean Myers may be best known for his young adult books. The author won the Coretta Scott King Award five times. (Charles Sykes / AP Photo) ...

Walter Dean Myers, Author Puffin Books $3.95 (87p) ISBN 978-0-14-032011-4. Award-winner Myers kicks off Arrow adventures with a fast, funny, suspenseful stoy related by Chris Arrow, 17.

Like many of the protagonists in his dozens of young adult books, Walter Dean Myers was once a troubled, sensitive and intelligent young man living an aimless life.

He was born Walter Milton Myers on Aug. 12, 1937, in Martinsburg, W.Va. After the death of his mother, his father sent his son to live with his first wife, Florence Dean, and her husband, Herbert ...

Walter Dean Myers died Tuesday after a brief illness. He was 76. He grew up in Harlem, and with books like the bestseller "Monster," he hoped to get African-American city kids interested in reading.

Walter Dean Myers, who writes books for children and young adults, was recently named the national ambassador for young people’s literature by the Library of Congress.

Writer Walter Dean Myers died on Wednesday after a brief illness at age 76, ... Myers wrote more than 100 books, most of them in the genre of fiction for young adults (YA).

NEW YORK (AP) – Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific ... being an ambassador and make sure I was writing, too." Myers' books were usually narrated by teenagers trying to make right ...

Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific children’s author who spent much of his adult life writing realistic and accessible stories about crime, war and life in the streets, died July 1 ...

Walter Dean Myers was a tall, angular, soft-spoken man who told great stories.He and his wife, Connie, were married for nearly half a century. He was one of the nation's most successful and ...