Author Dee Brown Dies at 94

Brown, a former librarian, wrote 29 fiction and nonfiction books about various aspects of Western history. In 1998, at age 90, he published his last work, The Way to Bright Star (Forge), a historical novel for young people about the American Civil War.

Brown primarily wrote part time, while he pursued a career as a librarian. A graduate of the library science program at George Washington University, he worked as a technical librarian for the U.S. War Department from 1945 to 1948. After that, he served as a librarian at the University of Illinois in Urbana, where he eventually taught in the library science department until 1975.