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About Bruce Coville
Bruce Farrington Coville (born May 16, 1950) is an author of young adult fiction. Coville was first published in 1977 and has written over 100 books.
Coville was born on May 16, 1950, in Syracuse, New York, where he resided as of November 2012. Bruce Coville's father (born Arthur Farrington) was adopted by his aunt, where he adopted her surname of Coville. Growing up in what he called "farm country", Coville realized his bisexuality in his teens. While waiting to publish his first novel, Coville was employed in a number of professions including toymaker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, assembly line worker, and elementary school teacher working with second grade students and fourth grade students. Coville is wed to Katherine née Dietz (married when Coville was nineteen), and the two of them have three children: "a son, Orion, born in 1970; a daughter, Cara, born in 1975; and another son, Adam, born in 1981.