6/8/2023 0 Comments Fallen angels myers![]() Unable to reach out verbally, Myers turned to writing, pouring out his thoughts in poems and short stories. Though Myers describes his young life as happy-filled with basketball games, a loving upbringing, and good books-he suffered from a speech impediment that made it difficult for him to communicate with others, and at first filled him with rage. His foster parents lived in the African-American neighborhood of Harlem in New York City, and he spent most of his childhood and young adulthood there. Myers's mother died three years after his birth, and his father, too poor to raise him, put him into foster care. Walter Dean Myers was born in West Virginia in 1937. Influence of author's military experience on his writing Fallen Angels is listed as number 16 in the American Library Association's list of 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–2000 due to its use of profanity and realistic depiction of the war. It won the 1988 Coretta Scott King Award. ![]() Fallen Angels is a 1988 young-adult novel written by Walter Dean Myers, about the Vietnam War. ![]()
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