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Categorization is odious. There is tremendous overlap among genres. These pigeonholes are offered only as a convenience.

Walter Dean Myers (1937 - )

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Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers, on August 12, 1937) is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written thirty books, including novels and nonfiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. One of these books, Fallen Angels, has made the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books, due to rough language and its depiction of the Vietnam War.

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