William E. Coles Jr. (1932–2005) was an American

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while othe ...

and

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. Born in

Summit, New Jersey Summit is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The city is located on a ridge in northern- central New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley and Rahway Valley regions in the New York metropolitan area. At the 2010 United Stat ...

, Coles earned degrees from

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU) is a private research university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and was originally affiliated with the Ep ...

, the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...

, the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. From 1974 to 1998 he served as a professor and director of composition at the

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. Previously he taught at Amherst College and at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Res ...

. Coles died on March 21, 2005. He was survived by his wife, Janet Kafka.

Books

* ''The Plural I'', English composition instruction book (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978). * ''Funnybone'', novel (New York: Atheneum Books, 1992). * ''

Another Kind of Monday ''Another Kind of Monday'' is a 1996 young-adult novel by the American writer William E. Coles, Jr. (1932–2005) set in 1990s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of Mark, a high school senior who by chance opens an old library c ...

'', novel (New York: Atheneum Books, 1996). * ''

Compass in the Blood ''Compass in the Blood'' is a young-adult novel Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are ad ...

'', novel (New York: Atheneum Books, 2001).

References

Sources

* ''Contemporary Authors Online''. The Gale Group, 2006. * Matthew Lavelle (2007)
''Pennsylvania Center for the Book'': Profile of William E. Coles, Jr.
Retrieved November 29, 2008. * Storlie, Erik F. Go Deep & Take Plenty of Root: A Prairie-Norwegian Father, Rebellion in Minneapolis, Basement Zen, Growing Up, Growing Tender. Recollections of W.E. Coles, Chapters 6-7. Createspace 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Coles, William E. Jr. 1932 births 2005 deaths Writers from Pittsburgh University of Connecticut alumni Lehigh University alumni University of Minnesota alumni University of Pittsburgh faculty American male novelists 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers Novelists from Pennsylvania People from Summit, New Jersey