01588cam a2200289 4500 282990722 TxAuBib 20140103120000.0 001101s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00052978 9780060295233 $18.99 0060295236 $18.99 TxAuBib Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- Bad boy : a memoir / by Walter Dean Myers. New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. 214 pages. Roots -- Harlem -- Let's Hear It for the First Grade! -- Arithmetic Summer -- Bad Boy -- Mr. Irwin Lasher -- I Am Not the Center of the Universe -- A Writer Observes -- Sonnets from the Portuguese -- Heady Days at Stuyvesant High -- The Garment Center -- God and Dylan Thomas -- Marks on Paper -- The Stranger -- Dr. Holiday -- Being Black -- 1954 -- Sweet Sixteen -- The Typist -- Books I've Typed. The author relates his experiences growing up in Harlem, the home of Sugar Ray Robinson and Langston Hughes, in the 1940s and 1950s. 20140103. Myers, Walter Dean 1937- Childhood and youth Juvenile literature. Authors, American 20th century Biography Fiction. African American authors Biography Juvenile literature. Children's stories Authorship Juvenile literature.