Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I'm only a second-generation American. My father's family came to this country from Denmark; my mother's people emigrated from Norway and Sweden. My father was a career military man who se...

My Life as a Dog FOR ALL ITS earnestness, though,River's Edge is inferior to a Swedish film about adolescence, My Life as a Dog, by Lasse Hallstrom from an autobiographical novel by Reidar Jonsson (who collaborated on the script), exquisitely shot by...

In my early twenties, a girlfriend left me and her dog at the same time. The night before she departed for parts unknown, she called and asked me to hold her dog for "a while." That was 1963 and in New York. In 1974...