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Writer, beginning s. Has also worked as a teacher, field engineer, editor, soldier, actor, director, farmer, rancher, truck driver, trapper, professional archer, migrant farm worker, singer, and sailor. Military service: U. Army, ; attained rank of sergeant. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, The C. The Small Ones, illustrated by K.

Sailing: From Jibs to Jibing, illustrated by R. Communications, one-act , produced in New Mexico , Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass adult nonfiction , illustrated by R. Author of numerous short stories and articles. Books in the " Gary Paulsen World of Adventure" series. A writer of popular and finely wrought young adult novels and nonfiction with sales totaling more than three million worldwide, Gary Paulsen joined a select group of YA writers when he received the Margaret A.

Edwards Award honoring an author's lifetime achievement in writing books for teens. In prose lean and echoing of Hemingway, Paulsen creates powerful young adult fiction, often set in wilderness or rural areas and featuring teenagers who arrive at self-awareness by way of experiences in nature — through challenging tests of their own survival instincts — or through the ministrations of understanding adults.