He has won many prizes for his journalism and his novels for young adults. Included in his awards is the Margaret A. Edwards Award of the Young Adult Services Division of the American Library Association. This award is presented in recognition of those authors who provide young adults with a window through which they can view the world, and which will help them to grow and understand themselves and their role in society.
Cormier loved to travel and had visited almost every state in the U.S. A trip to Australia where he dipped his hand in the Indian Ocean thrilled him beyond measure. He also loved jazz, movies, and staying up late (to hear jazz and watch movies) and his true heroes were writers like Graham Greene, Thomas Wolfe, and J.D. Salinger. Cormier's books have been translated into many languages and consistently appear on the Best Books for Young Adults lists of the American Library Association, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL.
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