Gary Paulsen
1939-
Other Works
Brian's Winter
My Life in Dog Years
The Winter Room
Hatchet
Dogsong
Precious Gift Because Gary Paulsen's father was an army officer, his family moved frequently when he was a boy. "School was a nightmare because I was unbelievably shy, and terrible at sports," he recalls. One cold winter night when he was living in a small town in northern Minnesota, Paulsen went into a library to get warm. The librarian offered him a library card and the chance to take out books. Paulsen read the books he took out "as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five gallon bucket of water."
Outdoor Adventures Besides being a writer, Paulsen has been, among other things, a soldier, a trapper, and a rancher. His experiences in the outdoors have been the inspiration for more than forty books, among them the Newbery Honor Books Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room.
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