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Obituary.(author Robert Cormier)

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| November 13, 2000 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Robert Cormier, author of such classic young adult novels as The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese and After the First Death, died in Boston on November 2. He was 75.

Cormier, who lived in Leominster, Mass., almost all his life, had his first brush with publishing at the age of 12, when some of his poems were published in the Leominster Daily Enterprise. Then, while he was in his first year at Fitchburg State College, a professor submitted one of his stories, "The Little Things That Count," to The Sign, a national Catholic magazine, which bought it for $75.

Cormier started his career in 1948 as a newspaper writer and editor, first at the Worchester Telegram and …

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