A boy who read voraciously - Mark Twain, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Dylan Thomas, Honoré de Balzac, James Joyce - even after he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School in New York. A boy who stumbled over his words but moved with perfect grace on the basketball court. A tall, athletic boy who fought with other kids and threw books around the classroom and talked when he wasn’t supposed to. A distracted, disruptive boy - a bad boy, his teachers said. He would check out books from the library and carry them home, hidden in brown paper bags in order to avoid other boys' teasing. As a boy, Walter Dean Myers was quick-tempered and always ready for a fight.
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