Biography Of Robert Cormier
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Robert Cormier was born in 1925 in French Hill, a French-Canadian
neighborhood of Leominster, Massachusetts, and has lived in Leominster all
his life. The second of eight children, Robert enjoyed a happy childhood in
the nest of his close-knit family and community. His family provided him a
haven f ....
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.... believed her, and continued to think of himself as one.
Later, a teacher at Fitchburg State College was so impressed with one of
Cormier's stories that she submitted it to a magazine; it became his first
published work.
After college, Cormier went on to write commercials for a local radio
station, and soon switched to newspaper work. He was a writer and editor at
the Fitchburg Sentinel for 23 years, where he won three major journalism
awards. He later wrote short stories for popular magazine ....
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