![]() ![]() So, I have family in Texas and then when my family and I self-published Eragon back in 2002, I was doing lots of events in libraries and schools. But amazing landscape, and in fact, quite a few bits of the landscape going up from Montana to Texas inspired bits of my own writing. You get out to some of the flat areas and you start glazing over. So I was always doing the drive from all the way from Montana down to Texas and back growing up to go visit family, and I'll tell you that is a long drive. She was a professor of Comparative Literature. So, my father's mother (Shirley Paolini) was a Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston. MySA: We were talking and you said you have a Texas connection with your grandmother. MySA sat down with Paolini to discuss his Texas ties, his career, the 20th anniversary, and what to expect from the new novel. ![]() Now on the eve of Eragon’s 20th anniversary, an illustrated edition of Eragon and a sequel novel, Murtagh, are both releasing on November 7. “If not for all of the support of the librarians there, I probably wouldn’t have had the career I have,” Paolini said to MySA. But MySA spoke with the author recently and found he has family in the Lone Star State and he credited Texas librarians for helping kickstart his career. Paolini and Eragon would not appear to have a Texas connection on the surface. ![]()
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