

Eragon has since been adapted into a film of the same name.Įldest, the sequel to Eragon, was published in 2005. At the age of nineteen, Paolini became a New York Times bestselling author. The second edition of Eragon was published in August 2003. However, his big break was to come in Summer 2002, when the stepson of author Carl Hiaasen found Eragon in a bookstore and loved it, and Hiaasen brought it to the attention of his publisher, who subsequently made an offer to publish Eragon and the rest of the Inheritance Cycle. In 2002, Eragon was published in a small way by Paolini International LLC, Paolini's parents' company. Following graduation, he started his work on what would become the novel Eragon and its sequel Eldest, both set in the kingdom of Alagaësia. Home schooled for the duration of his education, Paolini graduated from high school at the age of 15 through a set of accredited correspondence courses from the American School in Chicago, Illinois. Sophie Cameron - our Author of the MonthĬhristopher Paolini was born in 1983 in California where he still lives.Best kids books for getting children walking for National Walking Month and Walk to School Week.



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