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. He developed that flare after a librarian gave him a book to read. Thomson Gale makes no other representations or warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and shall have no liability for lost profits or consequential damages. However, he dropped out and joined the U.S.

Army, where he served for roughly three years. He served in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1962, and worked with missiles. I wanted nothing more to do with publishing and burned my bridges, so to speak." Unable to earn any other type of living, he went back to trapping for the state of Minnesota. Art reaches out for newness, and adults aren't new.

Recreating his own childhood experience, Paulsen tells a tale of a young boy sent to his grandmother, a voyage of salvation for the youthful protagonist. We follow him as he participates in a 1150-mile race. Neither Thomson Gale nor its licensors represent or warrant that the information contained in the database is complete or free from error, and neither assumes and both expressly disclaim, any liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions in the database whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident or any other cause.

Gary Paulsen

Born May 17, 1939, Gary Paulsen is one of America's most popular writers for young people.

. As Paulsen himself has said, 'I know if there is any hope at all for the human race, it has to come from young people.'"

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born May 17, 1939, in Minneapolis, MN; son of Oscar (an army officer) and Eunice Paulsen; married third wife, Ruth Ellen Wright (an artist), May 5, 1971; children: (third marriage) James Wright; two children from first marriage.

"(Sarny's) story makes absorbing reading," concluded Bruce Anne Shook in a School Library Journal review.

Paulsen prefers to write for adolescents because, as he once observed, "(it's) artistically fruitless to write for adults. . Looking at life as a literal gem, he can turn said gem, gazing at a new facet, a new angle of approach for old stories, mining and re-mining his own lode of stories endlessly.

In another critically successful book, Paulsen examines the horrors and brutality of slavery.

After the Army, he took extension courses to become a certified field engineer, and found work in the aerospace departments of the Bendix and Lockheed corporations.

. . . Paulsen eventually won the case, but, as he once observed, "the whole situation was so nasty and ugly that I stopped writing. I can't even describe how liberating it was.