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American novelist

Bruce Farrington Coville (,^[1] born May 16, ) is an author of young adult fiction. Coville was first published in and has written over books.

Biography

Coville was born on May 16, , in Syracuse, New York,^[2] where he resided as of November&#;^[update].^[3][4] Bruce Coville's father (born Arthur Farrington) was adopted by his aunt, where he adopted her surname of Coville.^[1] Growing up in what he called "farm country", Coville realized his bisexuality in his teens.^[5] 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.^[2] 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 ; a da