![]() Myers' books tell stories that many in the audience are all too familiar with - stories about being insecure for lack of a dad, being scared to walk in your neighborhood, being viewed as a criminal monster. Though the audience members walk in wearing prison jumpsuits and sit slumped in their chairs, don't be fooled by the attitude: These kids have read some of Myers' dozens of books and are here because they want to meet the author. ![]() Myers amassed a collection of aviation photographs while preparing to write The Brown Condor, the story of a pilot in the Italian-Ethiopian conflict of 1935.Īuthor Walter Dean Myers meets some of his young fans in a classroom at a juvenile detention center in the South Bronx.
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