[This entry was updated by Sylvia Patterson Iskander (University of Southwestern Louisiana) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 34-51.] "Teen-agers' Laureate," the title conferred upon Robert Cormier by...

"Teen-agers' Laureate," the title conferred upon Robert Cormier by Tony Schwartz in Newsweek (16 July 1979), is fittingly bestowed upon this widely read and critically acclaimed author in the relatively new and somewhat amorphous genre referred to as you...

Robert Cormier began his life in the French-Canadian section of Leominster, Massachusetts on January 17, 1925. "We lived in a three-story tenement. I remember my mother and father heating up the water so we could take baths. I had a great childhood, surr...

A Palestinian man and three of his four adult children have been released from a Texas detention facility, where they claim they were mistreated while being held in an immigration case.Radi Hazahza, 56, and the children were released Wednesday, attorney Joshua Bardavid said. The fourth...

A human rights group has urged the Malaysian government to disband a feared volunteer security force, saying its members are responsible for violence and numerous cases of illegal detentions, mainly against migrant workers.The Ikatan Relawan Rakyat, known by its Malay acronym RELA, has almost half...

It wasn't your typical fire. When police responded to a report that something smelled of smoke in the middle of the night, they found an old school bus that had been converted into a supersized oven for Passover matzos _ complete with a smokestack, exhaust...

He was brought out of the darkness of the Sago Mine in the middle of the night, comatose and battered _ and straight into the unyielding glare of unwanted fame.But today, nearing the anniversary of the Jan. 2 explosion and 41-hour entrapment that killed 12...