Biography Essay"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 ...
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"Terrorism, suicide, child murder, betrayal, personality destruction, and governmental and religious corruption." They might seem more like topics for television movies-of-the-week than themes for you...
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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...
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While Robert Cormier began his career writing fiction for adults, The Chocolate War (1974) established his reputation as an author of young adult literature. He says that he writes novels with young p...
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[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' L...
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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...
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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, mainl...
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Jakarta (dpa) - A major earthquake registering 7.5 on the Richter
scale struck off the northern coast of Indonesia's Java Island early
Thursday, and was felt hundreds of kil...
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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 ove...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Severe thunderstorms and at least one tornado tore through central Florida early Friday, killing at least 14 people, destroying mobile homes and a church and lifting a tractor-trailer into the air,...
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CBS has tossed "Armed & Famous" into the cancellation cooler. The new reality television series, which followed five lesser-celebrities during their time as gun-carrying reserve officers of the...
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Robert Cormier
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Robert (Edmund) Cormier
All but one member of detained Palestinian family released
