Born in Owosso, Michigan on June 12, 1878 and raised there, Curwood grew up to study journalism at the University of Michigan in 1900. He sold his first story while working as a journalist for the Detroit News-Tribune. Saving his money, Curwood took his first journey into the wilds of Canada before 1910, capturing the heart of the wilderness and people there in his first novels. The success of his writing allowed him to continue to return to Canada, Alaska, and the Yukon over the next seventeen years writing the adventure novels that the reading public of the early 1900s loved.
