TY - BOOK AU - Myers,Walter Dean TI - Bad boy: a memoir SN - 0060295236 U1 - BIO MYE PY - 2001/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - HarperCollins Publishers KW - Myers, Walter Dean, KW - Authors, American KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - African American authors KW - Children's stories KW - Authorship N1 - 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 N2 - The author relates his experiences growing up in Harlem, the home of Sugar Ray Robinson and Langston Hughes, in the 1940s and 1950s ER -