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.

Order of the eragon books