Dee Alexander Brown Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Dee Brown became known to the larger public as a novelist and historian. His great novel "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is still perhaps the best historical portrayal of the violent relationship between Native Americans and the expansionist Americans with their roots in the Old World. Brown grew up in Ouachita County, Arkansas, and Little Rock, ...
December 12, 2002, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Place Of Birth
Alberta, Louisiana, USA
Height
1.85 m
Weight
84 kg
Profession
Writer
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, George Washington University
Nationality
American
Spouse
Tammy Brown
Children
Lexie Brown
Awards
NBA All-Rookie Team
Movies
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
TV Shows
City Slam
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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[1980] What particularly excites me nowadays is the growing strength of literature written by American Indians themselves - Scott Momaday Jr., Vine Deloria Jr., James Welch, Jamake Highwater, Leslie Silko. When an Indian learns how to write, he's as good as they come.
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[1974] The West is a tragedy relieved by interludes of comedy. It is a tale of good and evil, a morality play of personified abstractions. Only an epic poet, a Homer, could encompass the American West and sing its essence into one compact volume.
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[1971] What surprised and hurt me most was how much the Indians believed the white man over and over again. Their trust in authority was amazing. They just never seemed to believe anyone could lie.
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Fact
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The Dee Brown Library, a branch library of the Central Arkansas Library System, is named for him. Located at 6325 Baseline Road, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
TV Movie based on the book by - as Dee Alexander Brown
$500,000
