Gary's wife is Ruth Wright Paulsen, an artist who has illustrated several of his books. They divide their time between a home in La Luz, New Mexico, and a boat in the Pacific.
Books:
Alida's Song
Amos and the Chameleon Caper / Amos and the Vampire / Amos Binder, Secret Agent / Amos Gets Famous / Amos Gets Married / Amos Goes Bananas / Amos's Killer Concert Caper / Coach Amos / Culpepper's Cannon / Dunc and Amos and the Red Tattoos / Dunc and Amos Go to the Dogs / Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top / Dunc and Amos Meet the Slasher / Dunc and Amos on Thin Ice / Dunc and the Flaming Ghost / Dunc and the Haunted Castle / Dunc and the Scam Artists / Dunc Breaks the Record / Dunc Gets Tweaked / Dunc's Doll / Dunc's Dump / Dunc's Halloween / Dunc's Undercover Christmas / Prince Amos / Super Amos / The Wild Culpepper Cruise
The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
The Boy Who Owned the School: A Comedy of Love
Brian's Return / Brian's Winter / Hatchet / Guts: The True Stories Behind the Hatchet and Brian Books
Call Me Francis Tucket / Mr. Tucket / Tucket's Gold / Tucket's Home / Tucket's Ride
Canoe Days
Canyons
Captive
The Car
The Case of the Dirty Bird
A Christmas Sonata
Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass
The Cookcamp
Cowpokes and Desperadoes
The Creature of Black Water Lake
The Crossing
Curse of the Ruins
Dancing Carl
Danger on Midnight River
Dogsong
Dogteam
Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey
Escape from Fire Mountain
Father Water, Mother Woods: Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods
Flight of the Hawk
The Foxman
The Gorgon Slayer
Grizzly
Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered
The Haymeadow
Hitting, Pitching, and Running - Maybe
Hook' Em, Snotty!
The Island
The Legend of the Red Horse Cavern
The Madonna Stories
The Monument
Murphy's Ambush / Murphy's Gold / Murphy's Herd / Murphy's Stand / Murphy's Trail
My Life in Dog Years
The Night the White Deer Died
Nightjohn
Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride: A Memoir About Men and Motorcycles
Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights
Project: A Perfect World
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers: Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs
The Rifle
The River
The Rock Jockeys
Rodomonte's Revenge
Sarny: A Life Remembered
The Schernoff Discoveries
The Selfish Giant
Sentries
The Seventh Crystal
Sisters
Skydive!
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
The Tent: A Parable in One Sitting
Thunder Valley
Tiltawhirl John
Time Benders
The Tortilla Factory
Tracker
The Transall Saga
The Treasure of El Patron
The Voyage of the Frog
The White Fox Chronicles: Escape, Return, Breakout
The Winter Room
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Woodsong
Worksong
Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
thanks to:
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/paulsen.html
http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/paulsen.html
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/paulsen.html#Biography
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/about.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/paulsen.htm
www.amazon.com