Christopher Paolini

Growing up in the majestic beauty of Paradise Valley, Montana, it is easy to see how a young imaginative mind would be influenced to write of a mythical community bound by natural surroundings. This is how Christopher Paolini emerged as a writer, coupled with his love of adventurous epic stories. All his life he was raised in this idyllic setting. Christopher and his younger sister Angela were homeschooled by their parents: Talita Hodgkinson and Kenneth Paolini, and at the young age of fifteen, Christopher graduated from high school through correspondence education.