Overall, all 4 Christopher Paolini books in the series have been bestsellers on the charts of The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. The last book in the series translated into numerous languages and published around the world in over 50 countries. So far, The Inheritance Cycle, which ended with Inheritance, printed in 2011, has sold over 35 million copies. The movie itself sparked the creation of an RPG game in 2006. The second release of his book make Christopher Paolini a bestselling author at the young age of 19.Įragon was also made into a movie by Fox 2000, which, unfortunately, was not well received by critics, and basically lost money, grossing less than its budget. Knopf. Soon, Knopf bought the entire Inheritance series, which currently includes four books.

When the same year, the stepson of the popular author Carl Hiaasen saw the book and read it, he liked it so much that he mentioned it to his father, who would recommend it to his publisher, Alfred A. The the first Christopher Paolini book was published in 2002 by Christopher’s parent’s publishing house, Paolini International LLC 4 years later. In order to promote his book and make it visible across the country, he and his family (parents and sister) started an aggressive campaign where he toured close over 135 schools and libraries, as well as bookstores across the western half of the U.S., where he would talk about writing. But as these were things he couldn’t do, he settled on writing stories about them. What he wanted to do most of all was fighting monsters while flying dragons and have adventures. Growing up, however, he didn’t really intend to become a writer. In an interview he notes that he got the inspiration for this particular book involving dragons from reading earlier on Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville, after which he started thinking about dragon eggs and asking himself all sorts of questions. At the age of 15, he graduated from high school via correspondence courses from the American School of Correspondence in Lansing, Illinois.Īfter he graduated from high school, he began working on Eragon, his debut novel, at the very young age of 15. Secrets of the Dragon Riders by James A Owen, 2010Ĭhristopher Paolini was born in 1986 in Los Angeles, California, and he grew up in the area of Paradise Valley, Montana, where he was home-schooled by his mom, a trained Montessori teacher.The Ultimate Unauthorized Eragon Guide by Lois H Gresh, 2006.Mythic Vision: The Making of Eragonby Mark Cotta Vaz, 2006.The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm (tales of Alagaësia #1), 2018.Inheritance (Inheritance Cycle #4), 2011.

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