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Christopher Paolini
American author best known for The Inheritance Cycle, a fantasy series that began with Eragon (2002). Born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Paradise Valley, Montana, he was homeschooled and began writing Eragon at age fifteen; his family self-published the novel in 2002, and Alfred A. Knopf reissued it in 2003 after author Carl Hiaasen brought it to the publisher's attention. He has also written the Fractalverse science-fiction novels To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and Fractal Noise.