Bruce Coville

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bruce Coville
Occupation	Children's Author
Date Of Birth	May 16, 1950(1950-05-16)
Age	74
Birthplace	Syracuse
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Taurus

Bruce Coville Biography

Bruce Coville is one of the most popular and richest Children's Author who was born on May 16, 1950 in Syracuse, New York, United States. An American fantasy writer and author for children who wrote The I Was a Sixth Grade Alien and Magic Shop book series. Other works are the Unicorn Chronicles as well as Space Brat. Space Brat series.

He told the tales that were told by William Shakespeare to younger audiences.

Bruce Farrington Coville (/ˈ k oʊ v əl / , born May 16, 1950) is an author of young adult fiction. Enraptured with reading novels at a young age, Coville was first published in 1977 and has over 100 books in his repertoire.

Coville began his love of books as a child, reading “Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and zillions of comic books”. He read “books that made [him] laugh, but also made [him] shiver in terror.” Wanting to impart those sorts of feeling to others is what spurred his love of writing. Coville knew he wanted to be a writer by his mid-teens, and by age 19 he “never looked back.” His first book, The Foolish Giant, a picture book illustrated by his wife, Katherine Coville, was published in 1977.

He got married to Katherine Dietz when he was an adolescent. He and Katherine Dietz were parents to 3 children: Orion, Cara and Adam.

Bruce Coville Net Worth

Bruce Coville is one of the richest Children's Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bruce Coville 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

There were brief periods as gravedigger and elementary school teacher prior to becoming a novelist. The first novel he wrote was, The Monster’s Ring, in 1989.

He was given his California Young Reader Medal in 1997 for his book Jennifer Murdley’s Toad.

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 and fourth graders. 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.”

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Facts & Trivia

Bruce Ranked on the list of most popular Children's Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Bruce Coville celebrates birthday on May 16 of every year.

When did Bruce Coville get married?

PERSONAL: Born May 16, 1950, in Syracuse, NY; son of Arthur J. (a sales engineer) and Jean (an executive secretary; maiden name, Chase) Coville; married Katherine Dietz (an illustrator), October 11, 1969 ; children: Orion Sean, Cara Joy, Adam.

How old is Bruce Coville?

72 years (May 16, 1950)

Where is Bruce Coville from?

Syracuse, NY

How many books has Bruce Coville written?

Books