[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...

Analyzes the novel We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier. Discusses the importance of realism in the story. Relates the realistic portrayal of events in the novel to increased understanding by adults of the tribulations of teenagers.

The book We All Fall Down is based on how people hide behind something or pretend to be who they aren't; and sooner or later they get caught.