Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen is an American author of young adult and children’s books, including adventure, western, coming-of-age, non-fiction and more. He is a prolific author with over 200 books in print, plus 200 short stories and magazine articles and many plays. A common theme to his work is the wilderness and survivalist tactics. Some of his most popular books are his Brian Robeson/Hatchet books, but he also writes several other series, including the Francis Tucket , Murphy , World of Adventure, Tales to Tickle the Funnybone , Duncan Culpepper and more.