![]() ![]() Myers’ teenage years, like those of the main characters in The Glory Field, contained an important turning point. Although Myers won several writing contests during high school, family members did not take his writing seriously because they did not consider writing to be a "real" job. ![]() When he was ten- or eleven-years-old, he began to write fiction, filling up notebooks with his stories. "I sensed a connection between myself and the worlds I read about in book," said Myers. His foster mother taught him to read at the age of four, and soon he was reading the daily newspaper to her. The Harlem of Myer’s childhood was a close-knit community with a strong church presence, many artists, and an abundance of hard-working families. ![]() He moved there as a young child, after his mother’s death, to live with Herbert and Florence Dean, whom he calls his foster parents. Walter Dean Myers was born in 1937 and grew up mostly in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. ![]()
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