About+Will+Hobbs

=__About The Author, Will Hobbs__= -Evan = =

An Overview of Will Hobbs's Childhood
William Carl Hobbs was born August 22,1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Will grew up in an air force family, so he had to move a lot throughout the country. An air force family means the dad or mom is in the air force. During his childhood, until college, he lived in Virginia, Texas, Alaska, northern and southern California and Pennsylvania. Will has three brothers and a sister and he is the middle child. While living in Alaska, he grew to fall in love with baseball, fishing, mountains, rivers, and books. Alaska was a huge influence in his love of nature. Will absolutely loved, and still loves books. He also has an outstanding amount of patience.

College and Marriage
After living in California, he applied to and attended Stanford University. Soon after graduating from Stanford, he and his wife Jean moved to where they still live now, Durango, Colorado. Will and Jean love to hike and explore the mountains behind their house. Also, one of Will's loves is to whitewater raft in running rivers nearby. He loves where he is because of those reasons, and how all of the area of surrounding nature sparks ideas for writing his novels.

Careers
Before Will Hobbs began writing books, mostly for children and young adults, he was a reading teacher for many years. When he writes, half of his ideas come from his own life experiences, and the other half from just reading many, many different books of different genres of books. An example of a life experience that Will wrote about is that after Will had whitewater rafted in the Grand Canyon nine times, he wrote the novel Downriver about whitewater rafting. He really gets into his writing and gets to know his charactors. "Writing takes dedication," Will said,"Just like learning to do a musical instrument or a sport." Will's biggest breakthrough in his writing was learning to write with the five senses beacuse he wants the reader to feel and touch what the charactor is really doing. That is what makes his writing so great. Will thinks that in every human, there is a part of the heart that longs for wild places.At his writing desk, all he hopes for is that he makes a good story that the reader likes. Will Hobbs truely is a great, very detailed writer.

Some Other Books by Will Hobbs

 * __Be____arstone__
 * __Downriver__
 * __Far North__
 * __Jason's Gold__
 * __Wild Man Island__
 * __Jackie's Wild Seattle__

Click to go to th Official [|Will Hobbs Website] [|Click here] to go to a part of an interview with Will Hobbs



I got this information from:
 * www.willhobbsauthor.com and
 * __Writers for Young Adults__ edited by Ted Hipple

I got the pictures from:
 * Drawing by Alex