Essay Archive - Biography of Robert Cormier
Biography of Robert Cormier
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 from the outer world. Cormier didn't fare well in the streets of his
neighborhood, where ballplaying ability counted for more than his love of
books. He attended St. Celia's Parochial Grammar School, where some of the
nuns gave him a terrible time. When he was in eighth grade, he watched in
horror from hi....
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