LEADER 01717oam 2200457 450 001 9910135121003321 005 20170523091600.0 010 $a1-4205-1177-7 035 $a(OCoLC)866900228 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL6NBG 035 $a(EXLCZ)993780000000057091 100 $a20130717d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalter Dean Myers /$fby Elizabeth Hoover 210 1$aDetroit :$cLucent Books,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (96 pages) $cillustrations (chiefly color) 225 1 $aPeople in the News 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4205-0859-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: One-man movement -- ch 1. The secret joy of books -- ch 2. A rocky start to a writing career -- ch 3. A writer's life -- ch 4. Pain and possibility on the streets of Harlem -- ch 5. From the real to the realer -- ch 6. An ambassador for reading. 330 $aProfiles the life and career of the groundbreaking African-American children's and young adults' author, Walter Dean Myers. 410 0$aPeople in the news (San Diego, Calif.) 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aYoung adult literature$xAuthorship 606 $aAfrican American authors$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aYoung adult literature$xAuthorship. 615 0$aAfrican American authors 676 $a813/.54 700 $aHoover$b Elizabeth$01240410 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910135121003321 996 $aWalter Dean Myers$92877734 997 $aUNINA