I write books for the troubled boy I once was." Somehow I always go back to the most turbulent periods of my own life. "It gave me permission to write about my own experiences. "A turning point for me was the discovery of a short story by James Baldwin about the black urban experience," Myers wrote. Most of those dealt with the challenges of urban life for young black men, and the complicated moral minefield they have to negotiate to stay in one piece. Myers wrote more than 100 books, most of them in the genre of fiction for young adults (YA). He expanded the face of publishing so that many children of color saw themselves reflected in his work. Writer Walter Dean Myers died on Wednesday after a brief illness at age 76, leaving mourners in the adult world and young readers who saw themselves in his books. Author Walter Dean Myers tours his old Harlem neighborhood in New York, Dec.
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