October 21, 2012

Dee Brown is the only contributor to Arkansas literature included in The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century (1996), a selection of the most significant works of the past 100 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 (1970), which changed the way the world thinks about America’s westward expansion.