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Many of Gary Paulsen's books are coming of age stories with the wilderness as their settings.

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Gary Paulsen eventually decided that to write he needed to move to a remote cabin. He lived in a cabin in northern Minnesota.

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Gary Paulsen graduated from high school in 1957 with only a D- average.

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Gary Paulsen grew up in relative poverty due to his parent's alcoholism.

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He married his current wife in 1971 named Ruth White.

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He ran away from home at age 14 to join and travel with a circus.

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He has two siblings, one full sister named Paulette, and a half brother named Bill.

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Gary Paulsen was born on may 17 1939.

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In 1966, Gary Paulsen published his first book The Special War.

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Lawn Boy

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Hatchet