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He has 4 children and a wife

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His book 'I am the Cheese' was adapted into a movie.

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He was the second of wight children born

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He was a newspaper reporter and colomnist for 30 years

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He liked listening to music by ABBA, Dixieland, and Rolling Stones.

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He liked listening to music by ABBA, Dixieland, and Rolling Stones.

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His style is influenced by Ernest Hemingway

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He died of lung cancer

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He was awarded with the Margret A. Edwards Award in 1991
'The Margaret Edwards Award is an American Library Association (ALA) literary award that annually recognizes an author and "a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature".'

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First started writing in the first grade

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He was born in Leominster, Massachusetts.

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He loves to travel and has visited almost every state in the USA

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Witnessed house burning and could not run to help his Mom and baby sister, as his Teachers made him sit back and pray.

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Some of his works were initially banned because of its dark controversial nature, took up his mothers surname.

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His novels and stories have a pessimistic theme

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He never stopped writing for his local newspaper the fitsburg sentinel

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He has been awarded the Phoenix Award. The Phoenix Award is an award made by The Children's Literature Association that honors a book deserving special recognition for its high literary quality and is awarded to a book published 20 years earlier.

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His novels and short stories are centered on themes of abuse, betrayal, mental illness, violence and revenge.

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He died on the November 2nd, in Boston, Massachusetts