*Introduction

Gary Paulsen is a three time Newbury Honor Book Award winner for his famous books: Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter room.
===Gary Paulsen was born May 17th, 1939. and ran away when he was 11 to the carnival. He got his taste for adventure while traveling with the carnival. In 1983 he ran the iditarod in Alaska, also know as "The last great race". He wrote a journal about the iditarod whitch you can view here. After his second iditarod he got a case of angina but somehow was able to talk and write still. In 1985 he compleated his first novel. Paulsen also made over 150 books and over 200 mini articals in newspapers or in multi story books (ex: Houganton Mifiln Reading books.) Paulsen is still alive today liveing in new mexico with his wife.===