How the hell was this news kept so quiet? this should have been trending on twitter (Hatchet was a book we all had to read in School, and it led to multiple books in the series, and heck the books had two timelines one where he was rescued and the other where where he wasn't rescued before Winter)
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1045981769/gary-paulsen-hatchet-author-obituary
and now I have a good idea as to why, he essentially had no social media footprint aside from a website that was run by a library