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Walter Dean Myers, Who Brought Stories Of And To Kids Of Color, Dies At 76

PEOPLE Posted: July 6, 2014 3:30 pm

“Painfully shy, a stutterer and facing bleak prospects as an man in the segregation era, Mr. Myers dropped out of the elite Stuyvesant High School and joined the Army on his 17th birthday. He wrote in his memoir, ‘Bad Boy’ (2001), that books were his friends as he fought despair.”

PEOPLE Published: 07.03.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 07.03.14

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