About the Author

•Gary Paulsen was born May 17, 1939

•Father was a soldier who was away during World War II

•Mother worked in a munitions factory

•Moved around a lot

•Incredibly shy

•Left home at 14

Employment History

• Traveled with a carnival

• Farm hand

• Construction worker

• Truck driver

• Sailor

The library . . .

"One night, in a small Minnesota town (Thief River Falls) where I was selling newspapers, as I was walking past the public library in twenty below temperatures, I could see the reading room bathed in beautiful golden light. I went in to get warm and, to my absolute astonishment, the librarian walked up to me and said, 'Would you like a book?'

The Writer

• Gary Paulsen published his first book, Special War, in 1966.

• Published nearly 40 books, several articles, and some short stories.

• Three of his novels-Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room won Newberry Honors.

The IditarodGary Paulsen entered the 1,180-mile Alaskan

dog sled race called the Iditarod in 1983 and again in 1985.

2005 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Bjornar Anderson arrives into Nome in 4th place as rookie of the year.

Competitor Jeff King near the finish line in Nome, Alaska.

A Typical Alaskan Husky

Paulsen and His Dogs

Feeding the DogsA warm breakfast consists of a beef heart cut in chunks about 3 inches square. Each dog gets about 3 pounds of either beef fat, pork, meat, pork fat, or lamb sausage for breakfast. “I have 26 dogs that I’m feeding so it takes awhile to go around and feed all of them.”

George Burns

Franklin Stove

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Credits• http://www.randomhouse.com/features/gary

paulsen/about.html

• http://www.goodtimestove.com/heating_stoves/franklin/rural_franklin_sr-701.html

http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/paulsen.html

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/paulsen.htm