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Biography of Gary Paulsen
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Childhood Ran away from home at age 14 and traveled with a carnival
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Never a dedicated student when he was young, but developed a passion for reading at a early age.
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Spent hours in his basement reading alone.
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Careers Jobs as an construction worker. Ranch hand. Truck driver. Sailor. Two rounds of 1,180-mile Alaskan dog sled race, the Iditarod.
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Family First marriage ended because of his dependence on alcohol. The failure cost him his son and daughter.
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Family Second wife Ruth Wright is a artist. She and their son James illustrated a couple of his children books.
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