Gary Paulson Biography

Born May 17 1939 Gary Paulsen is one of America's most popular writers for young people. Although he was never a dedicated student Paulsen developed a passion for reading at an early age. After a librarian gave him a book to read — along with his own library card — he was hooked. He began spending hours alone in the basement of his apartment building reading one book after another.
Running away from home at the age of 14 and traveling with a carnival Paulsen acquired a taste for adventure. A youthful summer of rigorous chores on a farm; jobs as an engineer construction worker ranch hand truck driver and sailor; and two rounds of the 1180-mile Alaskan dog sled race the Iditarod; have provided ample material from which he creates his powerful stories.
Paulsen's realization that he would become a writer came suddenly when he was working as a satellite technician for an aerospace firm in California. One night he walked off the job never to return. He spent the next year in Hollywood as a magazine proofreader working on his own writing every night. Then he left California and drove to northern Minnesota where he rented a cabin on a lake; by the end of the winter he had completed his first novel.

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