Walter Dean Myers is the critically acclaimed author of Monster, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award; Bad Boy: A Memoir; Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam, winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award; game; The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage; and Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told, which received a starred review in School Library Journal. His most recent novels are Dope Sick and Lockdown. He is a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award and the author of five Coretta Scott King Award winners.