![]() ![]() ![]() Salinger or William Golding it is Robert Cormier. Salinger, so it must have been particularly gratifying for him to read in Newsweek that 'if any author in the field can challenge J.D. One of Robert's favourite books is Catcher in the Rye by J.D. In Heroes, a teenage war hero and victim returns to confront the idolized youth leader who betrayed him. The Chocolate War is a popular young adult book by Robert Cormier and it is about how a young teenage boy named Jerry Renault refuses to sell chocolates at his school, Trinity and how he faces some hardships from Brother Leon and the Vigils because of his defiance. Tenderness, for example, depicts the relationship between a teenage runaway and a juvenile serial killer. This concern is reflected in his novels, which are often brutal and always uncompromising in their depiction of the individual struggling in the face of power, corruption, victimization, betrayal and conspiracy. ![]() ![]() His first work of fiction - a novel for adults - was published in 1963, but it was with the groundbreaking The Chocolate War in 1974 that Robert became a full-time writer.Ī gentle, caring, family-orientated man, who still lives in the town where he was born, Robert is concerned about the problems facing young people in modern society. Robert credits both journalism and writing commercials as helping him to achieve his characteristic economy of style. He went on to become a newspaper journalist for 31 years, winning three major journalism awards. Robert began his professional writing career scripting radio commercials. When he was twelve, Robert Cormier's teacher, a nun, read a poem by him and declared 'Robert, you're a writer.' ![]()
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