The Independent - London, November 8th, 2000
ONE OF the most controversial of children's writers, Robert Cormier took the traditional school or adventure story into an atmosphere of depression, failure and moral nihilism, common enough in some 20th-century adult writing but hitherto unknown in teenage fiction. Much banned in parts of his own America, he also still causes arguments over here despite the charm of the author himself, immediately obvious to anyone who met him on a visit to Britain last summer.
His own life helps explain his fascination with the darker side of being young. Born in 1925, the second of eight children in the Fr...
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