"I suppose there are very few 'failures' who get so many books published this early in their lives, and I am certain this gives me a perspective that is different from that of most 'successful' writers."
Like so many other writers for young readers, Aaseng had no intention of writing for a juvenile audience when he set out on a writing career, but he quickly found that he had a unique perspective from which to write to youth. "If a writer's gift is being able to see things that others do not see or can no longer see, and to speak in ways that do not occur to others," he commented in SAAS, "it must be to his or her advantage to live an abnormal life. The evidence shows that I had this advantage." One of five children of a Lutheran minister, Aaseng was born in Park Rapids, Minnesota, a world not far removed from that described by Garrison Keillor in his humorous Lake Wobegon tales. His father was a well-respected minister, noted for a quiet nature that bordered on the taciturn--a trait Aaseng claims to have inherited, and which also led to his bare-bones writing approach, one well fitted to younger readers.
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