Walter Dean Myers Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014
Birthday: August 12
Death: July 1
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
topic: Birthday, War, Sibling, Younger Siblings
