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WALTER DEAN MYERS (author and advocate): I was raised where?
CHILD: In Harlem.
WALTER DEAN MYERS: Yes, I was raised in Harlem.
JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And, on this day, it was to Harlem that author Walter Dean Myers returned. At 74, Myers is the Library of Congress' national ambassador for young people's literature, the first African-American to hold the post.
He had come to his old neighborhood to talk with second graders at St. Aloysius School about his life at a writer and the need to read, something Myers' own father never learned to do.
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