Walter Dean Myers - Awards & Nominations

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 4 up

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!

1996

Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature

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

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