[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...

The European Central Bank, which has repeatedly pumped extra funds into European money markets for two weeks, said Wednesday it plans to auction supplementary three-month funds valued at $53.97 billion to provide more liquidity to cash-hungry markets.The move prompted a new debate whether the bank...

Quentin Tarantino would love "Illegal Tender": drug deals gone wrong, sassy Latina assassins in leopard-print pants, shootouts in suburbia and a buxom, pistol-packing mom at the center of it all.It's helpful if you walk in with the expectation that it is a genre picture _...

What's the best way to make a bank robber turn around and walk out the door empty-handed? Try a handshake and a smile.Excessive friendliness is the key to the "Safecatch" system created by FBI Special Agent Larry Carr. The premise is that an overdose of...