Gary Paulsen (1939-2021)

by Horn Book
Oct 15, 2021 | Filed in Authors & Illustrators

"Anytime I’m on the ocean, or in a forest, next to a dog, or reading or writing a book, I’m home. I am — I know — a very lucky man."

We were sad to hear about the death yesterday of author Gary Paulsen. A three-time Newbery honoree — for Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room — Paulsen won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1997. Read his Publishers' Preview: Middle-Grade: Five Questions interview, from the January/February 2021 Horn Book Magazine, and starred review of his recent memoir, Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood. More to come in an upcoming issue of the Horn Book.

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