Awards & Winners

Walter Dean Myers

Date of Birth 12-August-1937
Place of Birth Martinsburg
(Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Walter Milton Myers
Profession Writer, Poet, Author
Walter Dean Myers is an African-American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He has written over fifty books including picture books and nonfiction. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. He currently sits on the Board of Advisors of the Society of Children's Book Writer's and Illustrators Myers received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1994 for his contribution in writing for teens. For his lifetime contribution as a children's writer he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010. As of January 2012, Myers is the Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a two-year position created to raise national awareness of the importance of lifelong literacy and education.

Awards by Walter Dean Myers

Check all the awards nominated and won by Walter Dean Myers.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth / Teens Invasion

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth / Teens Kick

2011


Nominations 2011 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Youth / Teens Lockdown

2010


Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Lockdown
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Jazz

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Autobiography of my dead brother

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Patrol
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2003


Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Picture Book
Honored for : Patrol

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Picture Book Patrol
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Bad boy

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 145th Street Stories

2000


Michael L. Printz Award
Honored for : Monster

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Monster
Michael L. Printz Award Monster
Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Monster

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Monster

1997


Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : Slam!

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Slam!

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Malcolm X

1993


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Somewhere in the Darkness

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Somewhere in the Darkness
John Newbery Medal Somewhere in the Darkness

1992


Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : Now is your time!

Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Now is your time!
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Now is your time!

1989


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Scorpions
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : Fallen Angels

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Fallen Angels
John Newbery Medal Scorpions

1985


Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : Motown and Didi

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Motown and Didi

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Hoops

1980


Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
Honored for : The young landlords

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors The young landlords

1976


Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff