About the Author

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Gary Paulsen (1939-2021) was a three-time Newbery Honor winner, for his wilderness survival adventure novels Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room, as well as the winner of the ALA Margaret Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature. The author of Northwind, How to Train Your Dad, and the memoir Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood, Paulsen wrote more than two hundred works of fiction and nonfiction. Three of his books were adapted into films, Hatchet (as A Cry in the Wild), Nightjohn, and Winterdance (as Disney's Snow Dogs).