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Robert Rick McCammon was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on 17 July 1952.

Robert McCammon received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974.

Following graduation, McCammon wrote advertising copy for Birmingham businesses and newspapers.

Robert wrote many short stories around this time but failed to get them into print.

During 1978 Robert McCammon wrote Baal, an ambitious effort having as its basis the biblical Book of Revelations and the ultimate conflict between limited Good and limitless Evil.

In the afterword to the 1988 edition of Baal, McCammon stated that "Baal is about power, written at a time when I had none," adding that "you always hear this said to young writers, 'write about what you know.' I wanted to write about things I didn't know, so I consciously set Baal in locations as far from the South as possible: Boston, the Middle East, and Greenland.

In May 2006, Robert McCammon's 1991 coming-of-age classic Boy's Life made the news when a parent in the Hernando County School District near Tampa, FL, challenged the book as inappropriate for the Nature Coast Technical High School library. Boy's Life was one of ten challenged books.

When Robert McCammon heard this news, he attended the meeting and gave a video defense of the book being challenged.

His video and details can be found on his website here:

http://www.robertmccammon.com/article...