Gary Paulsen, the acclaimed and prolific children’s author who often drew upon his rural affinities and wide-ranging adventures for tales that included “Hatchet,” “Brian’s Winter” and “Dogsong,” has ...

Minneapolis native and three-time Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen has died at age 82, according to a report from Publishers Weekly. He wrote more than 200 books, most of them coming-of-age novels ...

It’s a shame that you don’t know Gary Paulsen, that his name was never as recognizable as a Beverly Cleary (“Ramona the Pest”) or an Eric Carle (“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”), all of whom wrote books ...