The Horn Book Magazine, March 1st, 2001
Young adult literature has lost its grand master. On November 2, 2000, Robert Cormier died in Boston after a brief illness. He was seventy-five years old, but his thirteen YA novels speak to the hearts of teens everywhere and will continue to do so for many years to come. Cormier was acknowledged as the finest writer in the genre--and also the first to show the literary world that YA novels could be not only realistic about teen concerns but unflinchingly honest about big questions like the abuse of power, courage, forgiveness and redemption, and the struggle to stay human in a world that is, ...
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