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Daniel James Brown

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Daniel James Brown fell in love with the written word when he was 5 and his mother first read Danny and the Dinosaur to him. Since then he has earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in English from UCLA. He has taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford University. He now lives in the country east of Redmond, Washington, where he writes nonfiction books about compelling historical events.

Brown's most recent book is The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride. Chosen as an INDIE NEXT NOTABLE SELECTION by the American Bookseller's Association, it recounts the extraordinary journey of a young woman whose fate became entangled with that of the infamous Donner Part...more

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Average rating: 4.00 · 624 ratings · 231 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride 4.00 avg rating — 428 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 3.99 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Connections 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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Jun 27, 2009 07:44pm
Daniel Brown made a comment on Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 — Hi Folks, I wrote this book... "Roxanne wrote: "Your second book on the Donner Party deserves the Nobel Prize. This is a truly amazing book and I am looking forward to reading this b...more "
May 26, 2009 10:15am
Daniel Brown said "yes" to attending the event: Speaking & Signing date: June 26, 2009 07:30PM location: Powell's Books, 1005 W. Burnside, Portland, OR, The United States description: Come on out and learn about some of the facts and myths surrounding the Donner Party and hear about the incredible journey of Sarah Graves Fosdick.
Apr 09, 2009 12:57pm
Daniel Brown gave to: Light in August by William Faulkner	My rating:
Apr 01, 2009 08:26pm
Daniel Brown gave to: How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn	My rating:
Apr 01, 2009 01:21pm
Daniel Brown gave to: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester	My rating:
Apr 01, 2009 01:20pm
Daniel Brown gave to: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick read in January, 2005	My rating:
As good as narrative nonfiction gets--which can be very good indeed.
Apr 01, 2009 01:20pm · see review
Daniel Brown gave to: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard read in January, 1999	My rating:
Marvelous, particularly as an example of Dillard's sometimes dense but magical prose style.
Apr 01, 2009 01:17pm · see review
Daniel Brown marked as to-read: In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind	My rating:
Apr 01, 2009 01:16pm

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

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The Great Influenza The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

8 votes, 18.2%

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

7 votes, 15.9%

Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

4 votes, 9.1%

A Distant Mirror The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

2 votes, 4.5%

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

2 votes, 4.5%

No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt The Home Front in by Doris Kearns Goodwin

1 vote, 2.3%

Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson

1 vote, 2.3%

The Indifferent Stars Above The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown

1 vote, 2.3%

King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

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