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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Walter Dean Myers
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Walter Dean Myers.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 27 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Fiction writer Walter Dean Myers was born Walter Milton Myers on August 12, 1937 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Due to a severe speech impediment and the feeling of being misunderstood, Myers dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Army at age seventeen. After serving three years in the service, Myers began his writing career by writing for men's magazines and literary quarterlies. In 1969, he won a Writers Digest contest sponsored by the Council for Interracial Books for Children with his story, Where Does the Day Go?. Myers' other works include, The Young Landlords, Fallen Angels, The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, and Monster. Myers was a National Book Award finalist, a winner of the Michael L. Printz Award and won the Coretta Scott King Award five times. Myers passed away on July 1, 2014 at age 76.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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