Robert Cormier

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Robert Edmund Cormier (born January 7, 1925 in Leominster , Massachusetts , † November 2, 2000 in Boston ) was an American writer and journalist .

Life

Robert Cormier grew up in Leominster, where he married his wife and had four children.

He started writing when he was still in school. His first short story was published at the age of 19 . His teacher Florence Conlon , without his knowledge, posted one of his stories to The Sign , a Catholic magazine.

Cormier began his career with radio copywriting and later became a respected journalist. He worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist for 30 years and was mainly influenced by current events, but also by his environment, in his texts.

After the success of his first book, The Chocolate War , Cormier concentrated entirely on writing. He mainly dealt with the problems of young people in modern society, which is reflected in his stories. Cormier won many awards. Robert Cormier died of a blood clot on November 2, 2000 .

Several of his books were made into films, for example the 2009 film Tenderness - On the Killer Trail . Nine years earlier, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway hit US cinemas with Elijah Wood .

Awards and honors (selection)

Works

  • The Chocolate War. 1974.
  • I am the cheese. 1977.
  • After the first death. 1979.
There has been a lot of discussion about this book; one of the best known revolves around an (allegedly) conducted interview with Cormier, in which he talks about the fact that one of the protagonists, Ben, is not the only one who has kept some kind of diary. The discussions have divided the camps of readers: One side speculates whether Ben's father, General Marchand, is the other ominous writer and is also already dead, so that only Ben's mother could be a reader of this letter. The other side claims the entire interview was a hoax. It remains questionable whether Cormier himself knew about this discussion, as he did not provide any explanatory comments.

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