* He developed a passion for reading at an early age.
*He is a second generation American.
* His father's family came to America from Denmark.
*His mother's people emigrated from Norway and Sweden. *His father was a career military man who served as an officer on General Patton's staff during World War 2.
*His mother spent the war years working in a munitions plant in Chicago.
* ran away from home at the age of 14
*He is one of the most important writers of young adult literature today and three of his novels, Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room.
*He first saw His father when he was seven in the Philippines where him and his parents lived from
1946 until 1949.
*Birth Name- Gary Paulsen
*Born- May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
* He developed a passion for reading at an early age.
*He is a second generation American.
* His father's family came to America from Denmark.
*His mother's people emigrated from Norway and Sweden.
*His father was a career military man who served as an officer on General Patton's staff during World War 2.
*H is mother spent the war years working in a munitions plant in Chicago.
* ran away from home at the age of 14
*He is one of the most important writers of young adult literature today and three of his novels, Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room.
*He first saw His father when he was seven in the Philippines where him and his parents lived from
1946 until 1949.