To gain a greater insight intoĬraft, it is helpful to separate his books by point of view. Not all of these characteristics appear in each novel. ) and boys who face a direct struggle with nature while they learn about the interrelationships between man, animals, and death, a long-time Was raised by his grandmother and spent significant time with aunts and uncles) alcoholic parents (įather was) adults who have suffered lasting physical or psychological damage from a war experience (again, Native state a reminiscence of the character's youthful past, often the 1950s, when Paulsen was growing up relationships with sympathetic adults, some related, some not ( Enclosed in the universal coming-of-age package used by other young adult novelists are rural Midwestern settings, usually in Minnesota, (1990), a nonfictional account of his racing a dog-sled team in the Alaskan Iditarod.īooks share common characteristics that stem from his personal experiences. Gary Paulsen, beginning his writing career in the same era, addressed the same concerns in his eighteen young adult books, beginning with (1976) combined autobiography with fiction as the authors reexamined moments of their pasts.
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Between 19 three books were published that focused on a search for meaning and a system of values based on the author's personal relationship with the harsh yet ultimately comic natural world.
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