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Biographie de Robert Cormier

Robert Cormier was born in 1925 and lived in Leominster in Massachusetts, USA. He began writing at school where he was praised for his poetry. At the age of nineteen he had his first short story published when a college teacher, Florence Conlon, sent one of his stories to a national magazine without his knowledge. He began his professional writing career scripting radio commercials and went on to became an award-winning journalist.
Robert Cormier became a full-time writer after the successful publication of his first novel for teenagers, The Chocolate War (published in the UK in 1975), followed by others such as I Am the Cheese and After the First Death. He was concerned about the problems facing young people in modern society and this concern was reflected in his novels. He soon established a reputation as a brilliant and uncompromising writer.
A gentle, caring, family-orientated man, Robert Cormier was married with three daughters, a son and many grandchildren. He died in November 2000.