Edward Bloor

Biography

Edward Bloor (born 1950) spent over two decades as a public school teacher and editor in Florida before publishing Tangerine in 1997. His years in Florida's educational system gave him direct knowledge of the state's school cultures, the IEP process, the tensions between suburban development and agricultural communities, and the weather patterns — lightning, sinkholes, freezes — that structure the novel's physical world. Bloor has described the novel as emerging from his observation of how families organize themselves around their most destructive members, and how institutions designed to help children often become mechanisms of exclusion.

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