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About meI fell in love with the written word when I was 5 and my mother first read Danny and the Dinosaur to me, a book that I have always believed must have been written especially for me. Since then I have earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in English from the University of California at Los Angeles, in both of which places I read many great works, some even rivaling Danny and the Dinosaur. I have taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford University and worked as a technical editor and instructional designer at Microsoft. I now live in the country east of Redmond, Washington, where I write nonfiction books about compelling historical events.

My most recent book is The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride, which recounts the extraordinary journey of a young woman whose fate became entangled with that of the infamous Donner Party in 1846. My earlier book, Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894, takes the reader back to the events of September 1, 1894, when my great-grandfather and more than 300 other people died in one of America's greatest forest-fire disasters. That book was selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, was named one of the Best Books of 2006 by Booklist magazine, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award.

Homepagehttp://www.danieljamesbrown.com

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