Whom does Anderson credit with teaching her everything she knows about (170) her “responsibility to [her] readers”?

When Anderson discusses the time when her novel Speak was nominated for a National Book Award, she depicts the gratitude she feels toward her fellow author Walter Dean Myers. Walter is also a young adult novelist and Anderson credits him with teaching her everything she knows about how to appreciate and honor her reading audience. At the awards, this quality manifests itself when Anderson must wait for Walter to speak to every last one of the students waiting to meet him before Anderson can properly greet him.