Robert Cormier was born January 17, 1925, in Leominster, Massachusetts, and has lived in the town for most of his life. After attending Fitchburg State College, he began a career in journalism, first with the radio station WT AG (1946-48). He then worked at the Worcester Telegraph & Gazette and, for a longer period, the Fitchburg Sentinel He gave up full-time journalism in 1966 to concentrate on novel-writing, but continued to work as a columnist and associate editor for the Sentinel. He won a number of awards for his human interest column (published under the byline John Fitch IV), and a volume of autobiographical essays, edited by his wife-I Have Words To Spend: Reflections of A Small-Town Editor (1991 )-helps to explain the relationship between the upbeat realism of his journalistic work and the cynicism of.....
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