[color=blue:5315997e08]Gary Paulsen[/color:5315997e08]Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939. Gary was forced to grow up fast. Gary’s family never had much money while he was growing up. Gary had a miserable home. Both his parents were drunks. His dad worked in the Military and Gary moved various times because of his father’s job. Sometimes Gary would sell newspapers in an alley or help at the bowling alley to make a little bit of money. When things got unbearable Gary would either run away or was taken to relative’s houses to stay for a while.
Gary hated school. He had a D- average and wasn’t good at athletics either. He also had a bad reputation for getting in fights with other peers. One night Gary was selling newspapers in the twenty below temperatures, and saw the public libraries reading room bathed in beautiful golden light. At that point very few people had given Gary anything. Both his parents were drinking and it was a very rough run. He went in to get warm and to his astonishment the librarian asked him if wanted a book. He said sure in a sort of cocky tone and then she said to him “bring it back when you’re done and you can get another one.” First is took him a month to read a book, then two weeks, then a week, and pretty soon he was reading two books a week. She would give Gary westerns, science fictions, and everyone once in a while a classic. She didn’t care if Gary wore the right clothes or dated the right girls; none of those prejudices existed in the library. Hiding from his parent’s arguments, Paulsen would often retreat to their small apartment basement, snuggle beside the furnace with a book, milk, and some peanut butter sandwiches and read into the night. The librarian didn’t realize when she gave Gary a library card she had handed him the world.
The Essay on In His Book The Industry Called Parenting Amitai Etzioni Suggests
In his book The Industry Called Parenting Amitai Etzioni suggests that Western society undergoes a process of atomizing, when hedonistic impulses define the behavior of more and more young people. Author links it with the fact that parents do not spent enough time raising their children into productive members of society. Etzioni implies that parenting, just as any industry in post-modern society, ...
Gary barely managed to graduate high school. After high school he went to college for a short time but then quit to join the army. There he worked with missiles and was positive his future lay in electronics. But after a while he realized their must be more to life than sitting behind a computer screen all day. So, faking an impressive resume he scored an associate editor’s job with a men’s magazine. Shortly after his bosses discovered he barely knew anything about writing or editing but decided to help him learn. Every day he would write a article to bring to the editor for criticisms. After a very long 11 months, he finally sold his first article.
From there he moved to New Mexico to write the great American novel. But instead he ended up spending six years drinking, fighting, ruining his marriage, and rusting his talents.
Finally in 1973 he came back to earth and Minnesota with a new wife and began writing again this time not looking for greatness as much as money and food. He barely made $3,000 a year. His family lived in an old chicken coop with no indoor plumbing. The family had to make their own butter and ketchup. To help support his family, he ran a beaver trap line. He worked a twenty mile line on skis until someone gave him some dogs and a sled allowing him to expand the line to 60 miles. He really liked working with the dogs and decided to race in the Iditarod. A editor called to ask about Paulsen’s writing but he told the editor that he was not writing anything because he was running the Iditarod and had no money. The editor promised to pay the entry fee for the grueling race if he could get the next shot at the next thing Gary wrote. It was a deal. Gary loved participating in the 1983 Iditarod. Gary planned to run in another Iditarod but could not because he suffered a attack of angina and was forced to give up his dogs.
These experiences were inspiring to Gary. He wrote all about them in Dogsong and Woodsong. He was then gaining more fans and began to write more and more. Paulsen mostly wrote about real life experiences as in Hatchet and The Special War. Today he has won many various awards and continues to write. Gary believes that without the librarian he would have never made it as far as he is today. Currently Gary lives with his wife Ruth and divides his time between a home in New Mexico and a boat on the Pacific Ocean.
The Essay on Christian family
The authors of several books are celebrated for the different artistic works that they produce. In their real lives, not it is everything can however be celebrated. This is because some have undergone a hard time throughout their lives. Some have gone to the extent of committing suicide so as to end the problems in their lives. Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickenson are good examples of authors who have ...
