He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults.

Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day.

He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. After completing his army service, he took a construction job and continued to write. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Army at the age of 17. He began writing stories while in his teens. When he was three years old, his mother died and his father sent him to live with Herbert and Florence Dean in Harlem, New York. Walter Dean Myers was born on Augin Martinsberg, West Virginia. In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, 'The Crisis,' but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.

Harlem by Walter Dean Myers