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Robert Edmund Cormier (January 17, 1925 - November 2, 2000) was an American author. He lived in Leominster in Massachusetts, USA. He grew up and married there and he raised four children. Cormier, who was a newspaper reporter and columnist for 30 years was inspired by news events and in some cases also by circumstances in his own life for the basis of his plots. He has an outstanding ability to create stories which capture human interest.

Cormier began writing when he was in the seventh grade. He was praised at school 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 The Sign, a national Catholic magazine, without his knowledge. He began his professional writing career scripting radio commercials and went on to become an award-winning journalist.

Cormier became a full-time writer after the success of his first novel for teenagers, The Chocolate War, followed by others such as I Am the Cheese and After the First Death. He was concerned with 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. Included in his awards is the Margaret A. Edwards Award of the Young Adult Services Division of the American Library Association. This award is presented in recognition of those authors who provide young adults with a window through which they can view the world, and which will help them to grow and understand themselves and their role in society.

He died of a blood clot.

List of published works

Works are listed by publication date.

• The Chocolate War (1974)
• I Am the Cheese (1977)
• After the First Death (1979)
• The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1983)
• Beyond the Chocolate War (1985)
• Fade (1988)
• Other Bells for Us to Ring (1990)
• We All Fall Down (1991)
• Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1992)
• In the Middle of the Night (1995)
• Tenderness (1997)
• Heroes (1998)
• Frenchtown Summer (1999)
• The Rag and Bone Shop (2001)

External links

• Robert Cormier at Random House Books
• Author Profile: Robert Cormier - interview from April 2000

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