Ruth Wright Paulsen Biography – Ruth Wright Paulsen Wiki
Ruth Wright Paulsen is an American published author, illustrator, and photographer of children’s books and young adult books. She frequently collaborated with her husband, author Gary Paulsen, and her illustrations can be seen in his books Father Water, Mother Woods, and My Life in Dog Years.
She currently resides in an old adobe home on the outskirts of the village of Tularosa, Ruth works daily in a studio she maintains at her home. She taught art for two and a half years at a junior high school in Colorado. This later assisted her a great deal in her work illustrating books for young people with such houses as Harcourt Brace and Random House.
After she left teaching she moved to Taos, New Mexico to devote her time fully to painting. She met her husband, author Gary Paulsen and it was a natural progression to illustrating books that depicted parts of their lives. Whether it was farming in Northern Minnesota, running sled dogs to help her husband prepare for the Iditarod, or simply watching tortillas being made in a tiny factory in New Mexico, her life and art incrementally mixed. Ultimately, there were illustrations for books combined with paintings, sketches, and watercolors in galleries from California to Minnesota to New Mexico.
According to her website, she said, “While following the flow of the book when illustrating I try to make each picture an individual piece of art so that while it enhances the story it could easily be framed and stand-alone…”
She attended two years at Principia College studying the basics of art and graduated from the University of Colorado where she studied oil painting with Frank Sampson. With this well-rounded base, she further specialized and intensified her knowledge by studying at the University of Denver, at the San Francisco Art Institute, and continued her study of painting with David Leffel and Sherrie McGraw.
Ruth Wright Paulsen Age
She has not disclosed her age. However, her husband Gary was born on May 17, 1939, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., and died on October 13, 2021. He was aged 82.
Ruth Wright Paulsen Husband
She resided in New Mexico with her husband Gary Paulsen whom she married in 1971. Her husband Gary, was an American writer of young adult literature, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness.
He died on October 13, 2021, at the age of 82. The news of his death was made public by the publishing company Penguin Random House. The publisher termed his death as being sudden. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Ruth Wright Paulsen Children
Her children are Lance Paulsen, Lynn Paulsen, and James Wright.
