In 1984 Christopher James Paolini was born on the 17th of November in Los Angeles to Talita Hodgkinson and Kenneth Paolini. Though born in California he was initially raised in the beautiful Paridise Valley in Montana with his parents and sister, Angela. This was what inspired his first novel Eragon. Christopher and his sister were enrolled into the American School online after years of homeschooling with there mother, a trained Montessori teacher. This method of schooling was the best choosen because it gave, as JWR would say, Paolini a wide latitude with the extra time to began exploring his own interests, the works of writting literature. Aoround the age of 10 Christopher began to discover the world of fantsy, but with each book he read he became frustersated by the lack of quality. Wanting to live in a world full of fantasy, one that had the quality he though a book should have he decided to write his own. Christopher started out writting small works of literature that he would sell . Christopher said that he began to work on Eragon ,which would later become his first book ever written, at the mere age of 14. Since he didn't know what he wanted for the book he could never really write past more than a few pages. Christopher is now 30 years old and has finished his Eragon series call the Inheritance Cycle.
This block in the story was short lived as Christopher Paolini quickly found the desired direction to guide his book forward with. It was at the age 15 that he finished the draft of his first novel, Eragon. Taking a second year to revise and improve it. After reading Christopher's book his parents decided to self-publish it, taking another year preparing the novel for publication: copyediting, pro...
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