01575cam a2200277 4500 1261996495 TxAuBib 001101s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00052978 9780060295233 0060295236 9780060295240 lib. bdg. 0060295244 lib. bdg. (OCoLC)10410 DLC eng DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP OCLCQ NIALS C#L TAMCT DEBBG TxAuBib Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014,. Bad boy : a memoir / by Walter Dean Myers. New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. 214 p. ; 22 cm. 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. Myers, Walter Dean 1937-2014 Childhood and youth Juvenile literature. Authors, American 20th century Biography Juvenile literature. African American authors Biography Juvenile literature. Children's stories Authorship Juvenile literature.