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Dorris Alexander (Dee) Brown is the only contributor to Arkansas literature included in The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century (), a selection of the “most significant works of the past years.” He lived more than half his life in Arkansas and, beginning as a teenager, wrote continuously for publication, often long into the night, as he did for his best-known work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (), which changed the way the world thinks about America’s westward expansion.

His daytime profession as a librarian was the key to his international success as a writer: he knew how to find primary sources, such as Indian Treaties written in their own Native American words. His most famous bestseller has the rare distinction among historians of being considered an indispensable reference for Native American studies.

Dee Brown was born in a logging camp in Alberta, Louisiana, on February 29, His father, Daniel Alexander Brown, died when Dee was five years old.

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