Beloved children's author and wilderness enthusiast Gary Paulsen has died at 82
Gary Paulsen — whose wilderness adventure Hatchet taught generations of kids to survive in the forest — worked as a farmhand, truck driver and satellite technician before turning to writing.
Gary Paulsen, whose books taught generations of kids how to survive in the woods with only a hatchet, died Wednesday at the age of 82; his publisher said it was "sudden" but did not give a cause.
Paulsen was best known for those wilderness survival stories, though he wrote more than 200 books during his lifetime, and three of his novels,, and , were Newbery Honor books.
