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.
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