Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
For each of his books, Myers asked his wife to make a collage. He then hung them over his desk to help visualize his characters.
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Myers was working construction when he became a writer. He wrote at night, inspired by a high school teacher who had believed in his talent.
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Walter Dean Myers dropped out of high school at just seventeen. He joined the Army, though he went on to write many books that critique war.
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The author's hero? James Baldwin, who was one of the main reasons that Myers became a writer.
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Myers's inspiration for Lockdown was a real kid who was afraid of going back to prison.
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