Gary Paulsen started his career as a writer with his first best-selling book Hatchet. Paulsen was inspired by one summer he had had as a child. During this summer, Gary created a powerful want for adventure, which is the reason he wrote Hatchet and half of the reason for Dogsong. He also had a 180 mile dog sled race, which was the other half of his purpose for Dogsong . If you would like to get more background information on Gary Paulsen, you can just use the hyper link featured.
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