He has sailed across the Pacific Ocean three times.īut currently, Paulsen says, he is concentrating on work: writing work, that is, rather than dogsledding or sailing. In 2006, he had to drop out of the Iditarod because he’d cut a vein on an old piece of pipe after 80 miles of racing he almost died from the blood loss. The adult Paulsen’s wilderness adventures sound like plots from his books. The son of “appalling drunks,” Paulsen disliked school growing up, and he lived as a “street child” in Manila when his father was stationed in the Philippines right after World War II. His novels Dogsong, The Winter Room and Hatchet won Newbery Honor Medals, and his personal life is almost as famous as his characters. The author of over 200 books, Paulsen needs little introduction. He is also a hearty laugher, a casual curser and an eternal devotee of the natural world-characteristics that are happy confirmations of what fans of his young adult novels would hope to be true. The acclaimed young adult novelist is a storyteller, all the time. Speaking with Gary Paulsen is like reading Gary Paulsen.
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