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Robert Cormier

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After the First Death Summary

After the First Death is a novel by award winning writer Robert Cormier. In this novel, Miro, a Middle Eastern teenager, and a small group of his fellow countrymen hijack a bus filled with five-year-old children on their way to summer day camp. These hijackers believe they are fighting for their homeland, a country they have never seen. Kate, the teenage bus driver, finds herself drawn into a drama with a...

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Robert Cormier Biographies (5)

Robert Cormier

11,864 words, approx. 40 pages

Biography Essay"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 ... Read more

Robert Cormier

4,777 words, approx. 16 pages

"Terrorism, suicide, child murder, betrayal, personality destruction, and governmental and religious corruption." They might seem more like topics for television movies-of-the-week than themes for you... Read more

Robert Cormier

6,124 words, approx. 21 pages

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... Read more

Robert (Edmund) Cormier

3,868 words, approx. 13 pages

While Robert Cormier began his career writing fiction for adults, The Chocolate War (1974) established his reputation as an author of young adult literature. He says that he writes novels with young p... Read more

Robert (Edmund) Cormier

15,432 words, approx. 52 pages

[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' L... Read more