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 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Paulsen_-_Dogsong_Coverart.jpg]]7 **// Avi's birth, his family moved to. When he was young his sister gave him the nickname "Avi." Two of Avi's grandfathers were writers, and one grandmother was a //

// Avi's parents transferred him from [|l] to [|l], a smaller [|l]. There he studied with a tutor, Ella Ratner, whom he credits for his writing success. He struggled in school due to suffering from, a writing disorder. //

// Avi has written more than 70 books. He has written books for different age groups and in many different including historical fiction, comedies, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure tales, realistic fiction, and picture books. Avi has won awards for his books, including a for in 1991 and another for in 1992. His fiftieth book, was awarded the [|l] in 2003. Avi's book, //Iron Thunder, //about the ironclad Monitor and its battle with the CSS Virginia in Hampton Roads, Va., was selected as the 2009 Beacon of Freedom Award winner by Williamsburg Regional Library and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. At of the end of 2010, Avi will have published 71 books, all written for adults. In 2006 Avi wrote a sequel to// Crispin: The Cross of Lead //titled Crispin:the edge of the world//. //The third part of the series,// Crispin: the End of Time// was published in 2010.

After living in Providence,Rhode Island in December 23, 1937) Gary Paulsen Born May 17, 1939, Gary Paulsen is one of America's most popular writers for young people. Although he was never a dedicated student, Paulsen developed a passion for reading at an early age. After a librarian gave him a book to read — along with his own library card — he was hooked. He began spending hours alone in the basement of his apartment building, reading one book after another. Running away from home at the age of 14 and traveling with a carnival, Paulsen acquired a taste for adventure. A youthful summer of rigorous chores on a farm; jobs as an engineer, construction worker, ranch hand, truck driver, and sailor; and two rounds of the 1,180-mile Alaskan dog sled race, the Iditarod; have provided ample material from which he creates his powerful stories. Paulsen's realization that he would become a writer came suddenly when he was working as a satellite technician for an aerospace firm in California. One night he walked off the job, never to return. He spent the next year in Hollywood as a magazine proofreader, working on his own writing every night. Then he left California and drove to northern Minnesota where he rented a cabin on a lake; by the end of the winter, he had completed his first novel. Living in the remote Minnesota woods, Paulsen eventually turned to the sport of dog racing, and entered the 1983 Iditarod. In 1985, after running the Iditarod for the second time, he suffered an attack of angina and was forced to give up his dogs. "I started to focus on writing the same energies and efforts that I was using with dogs. So we're talking 18-, 19-, 20-hour days completely committed to work. Totally, viciously, obsessively committed to work, the way I'd run dogs....I still work that way, completely, all the time. I just work. I don't drink, I don't fool around, I'm just this way....The end result is there's a lot of books out there."

=Joyce Mcdonald = After several years working for a publishing house in Manhattan and starting her own small publishing house, Joyce McDonald switched gears and began a career as a college-level English teacher. Fortunately for readers, she has also continued to foster her love of writing and has built a reputation for herself as a children's book author. With middle-grade and young-adult novels such as //Mail-Order Kid, Swallowing Stones//, and //Devil on My Heels// to her credit, she has also authored the picture book //Homebody//, and has published academic articles as well as a book of literary criticism of American author Willa Cather. "I have always had a passion for books," McDonald once told //SATA//. "I grew up in a house where books lined shelves in almost every room," she noted of her childhood in New Jersey. "Each night my mother would read to me before I went to bed.... To this day, I still read for a few hours every night, curled up under my cozy covers, with a cup of herbal tea nearby. Needless to say, most of my professional life has been devoted to books through one means or another." McDonald proved herself an inventive storyteller early on, entertaining friends or aspiring to publication. "My first book was far from an elaborate production: eight pages of tediously hand-printed words and smudged crayon illustrations tenuously held together by a small safety pin. (We didn't own a stapler.) I was six years old." Unfortunately, her teachers were more interested in her penmanship ("my worst subject," McDonald admitted) than in her creativity with words. Nonetheless, she continued to write and illustrate original stories throughout elementary school. "I rarely shared these early endeavors with anyone, except my mother or grandmother. I remember the first time I experienced the delicious feeling of encountering a receptive audience. When I was seven, my mother took one of my stories and typed it into legible form ... then passed it along to a friend of hers who was an elementary school teacher. What is particularly memorable for me is the image I hold of my mother sitting at the kitchen table hunting out the keys of my father's old portable Smith Corona typewriter. She didn't know how to type, so it must have taken her hours. Yet it may well have been one of the most important things she ever did for me, because her message was loud and clear. She //liked// what I had written."

 Johnson was born in Alaska.She grew up in Windam,Ohio with her brother and parents. Like many successful people, she can recall one special teacher who read to her, thus sparking a love of books that would blossom into a love of writing. She wrote throughout her childhood. Although she attended Ken State University, she left before earning her degree to focus on her writing. During this time, she worked as a nanny and was employed by author Cylthania, who reviewed Johnson’s work and forwarded it to her publisher. Johnson credits this connection with giving her the “break” that launched her career successfully.Is still a writer and plans to be till she dies

 Sharon Creech  Sharon Creech was born in, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom). [|[1]] She often used to visit her cousins in Quincy, Kentucky, which has found its way into many of her books - transformed into Bybanks, Kentucky. Bybanks appears in ”. Bybanks also makes a brief appearance (by reference, but not by name) in”.
 * Clive Staples Lewis ** (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as ** C. S. Lewis ** and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, poet, academic,, literary critic, essayist [|t] from, Ireland. He is known for both his fictional work, especially ,