![]() ![]() At age 13, he told SATA, Paulsen had a chance encounter that awakened his passion for reading. Upon returning to the U.S., Paulsen was a self-described shy “Army brat” moving to a new place-and new school-every few months, finding it hugely difficult to make friends. In an interview for Something About the Author, Gary Paulsen recalled an early childhood “reared by my grandmother and several aunts” while his father was “fighting the Germans” and his mother worked in a munitions plant in Chicago during the war doing “Rosie the Riveter type stuff.” Paulsen was seven years old when he first saw his father in the Philippines, where the family was stationed from 1946–49. ![]() His father was a career military man who served as an officer under General Patton during World War II. Paulsen was born in Minneapolis to Oscar and Eunice Paulsen. Award-winning and prolific author Gary Paulsen, best known for his novels and nonfiction for young people about self-reliance and the transformative, awesome power of the wilderness, died suddenly on October 13 in New Mexico. ![]()
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