Ben Mikaelsen

Ben Mikaelsen was born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1952.

He went to an English school in Bolivia and

moved to the US when he was in the seventh grade.

When he was young he already knew he wanted to be a writer.

He has lived in Montana for 21 years and

has been writing for the past sixteen years.

He likes skydiving, flying, horseback riding,

and traveling to the North Pole and South America.

Some of his novels are: Touching Spirit Bear, Tree Girl, Ghost of Spirit Bear, and Petey. He has won many awards such as: the International Reading Association Award and Western Writer's Golden Spur Award. Ben Mikaelsen is married but doesn´t have any children. He does have a 700-pound black bear named Buffy.