HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific children's author and tireless champion of literacy and education, has died. He was 76.
Myers, a longtime resident of Jersey City, New Jersey, died Tuesday at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan after a brief illness, publisher HarperCollins announced.
A onetime troublemaker who dropped out of high school, the tall, soft-spoken Myers spent much of his adult life...
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