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Walter Dean Myers was a very well respected writer. He was born on Martinsburg West Virgin and was raised in Harlem New York. Mr. Myers had written Bad boys, Monster, Slam!, and many more books. He had a speech impediment which helped him to start writing. He would get picked on and teased about the way he talked. He got into a lot of fights because he didn’t talk like the other kids. Mr. Myers dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and by he was 17 he joined the army.

When Mr. Myers got out of the army he stared to wright book after book, after book. His favorite place to be was the public library or anyplace he could read. He was a dedicated readied and writer, how came out many great books. On July 1, 2014 Walter Dean Myers died

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