Christopher Paolini

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Christopher Paolini was born on November 17, 1983, in Los Angeles County, California. He is an American writer, who is best known for being the author of the Inheritance Cycle.

Early Life

Christopher Paolini was born in California, but was raised in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he still lives. He was homeschooled for all of his younger years and graduated from high school at the age of 15 through an accredited correspondence course at American School, Chicago, Illinois. After he graduated, Paolini began writing Eragon because he thought it would be a fun thing to do. The project began as a hobby; he never intended to be published. It took him one year to write the first draft of Eragon. Appalled at the poor quality of his writing, Paolini wrote a second draft of Eragon and then gave it to his parents to read. Paolini's parents were astonished at the quality of his work and decided to help him release the book through the family's publishing company, Paolini International. In Summer 2002, Carl Hiassen, the author of Hoot, brought Eragon to the attention of his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, who subsequently acquired the rights to publish Eragon and the rest of the Inheritance trilogy. Eldest, the sequel to Eragon, was released in August of 2005. He is currently writing the third book in the series.