Scott O'Dell was born on May 23, 1903, in Los Angeles, California. Because his father was a railroad man, the family moved often in the Los Angeles area, living for a time in San Pedro and on Rattlesnake Island, where O'Dell acquired a feeling for the frontier and the with his boyhood friends influenced the writing of Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Elementary and high school fascinated O'Dell but college did not. He attended Occidental College, the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University, taking only courses that interested him, without trying for a degree; for a short Streams to the River, River to the tion with university life, he became a cameraman, assisting.....
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