Daniel James Brown

Selected as one of the "Best Books of 2006" by the American Library Association and named a finalist in the 2007 Washington State Book Awards, UNDER A FLAMING SKY tells a gripping and inspiring story.

To learn more about the book and read some of the great reviews it has received, please click "Flaming Sky" at the top of this page.

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Several years ago, I set out to learn more about what exactly happened in Minnesota on the hot, dusty first day of September, 1894--the day that my grandfather's world exploded in flames. As I dug through musty old newspapers, tattered books, and faded letters, I discovered an extraordinary tale about an almost unbelievable event, and I've recorded that tale in UNDER A FLAMING SKY. Please click "Flaming Sky" above to learn more about it.

I am now working on a second book--THE INDIFFERENT STARS ABOVE--which will be published by HarperCollins/William Morrow in 2009. For more about that book, please click on "My Next Book" at the top of the page.

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I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Diablo Valley College, the University of California at Berkeley, and UCLA. I taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford University before becoming a technical editor at Microsoft.

I now live and write full time in the country east of Redmond, Washington with my wife, two daughters, and an assortment of cats, dogs, chickens, sheep, and honeybees. When I am not writing, I am likely to be birding, gardening, reading American history, reading Shakespeare, or chasing coyotes away from the sheep.