Author:
Paulsen, Gary.
Imprint:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) 2021.
Physical Description357 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:"[In this biography, author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood.] If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age thirteen, he may never have become a reader. And without his desperate teenage enlistment in the Army, he would not have discovered his true calling as a storyteller"--Dust jacket flap.