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== Biography ==
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Dixie Burrus Browning was born September 9, 1930 in North Carolina, and is the author of 104 novels. Her first novels were published in 1976 by [[Avalon]]. She often writes about the North Carolina region, particularly the Outer Banks where her family has lived since the 17th century.
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After publishing her 104th book, Browning found that the thrill of writing had left her. She turned to painting and drawing, and is an accomplished, well-known painter whose work is owned by collectors such as [[Nora Roberts]] and Andy Griffith. The daughter of baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, and has co-written historical romance novels with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams under the name [[Bronwyn Williams]]. Browning began her career writing under the name [[Zoe Dozier]].
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Dixie Burrus was born on September 09, 1930 in North Carolina's Outer Banks, U.S.A, where her family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams. Her father was the professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, she has two sisters, Mary and Sarah Burrus.
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Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Bronwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.
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==See Also==
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* [[Zoe Dozier]]
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* [[Bronwyn Williams]]
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== On the Web ==
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* [http://www.dixiebrowning.com] - Official Website
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* [http://www.writerspace.com/interviews/browning2001.html] - Interview with Dixie Browning at Writerspace
  
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The award-winning author is a five-time [[RITA]] finalist, winning the [[1983 Golden Medallion Winners|1983 Golden Medallion]] in the [[RITA®: Best Short Contemporary Series|Contemporary Sweet]] category for her novel ''[[Renegade Player]]''. She wrote 21 novels for the [[Silhouette Romance]] line.
 
  
 
== Books ==
 
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== Honors ==
 
== Honors ==
 
* [[1983 Golden Medallion Winners|1983 Golden Medallion]] - [[RITA®: Best Short Contemporary Series|Contemporary Sweet]] category for ''[[Renegade Player]]''
 
* [[1983 Golden Medallion Winners|1983 Golden Medallion]] - [[RITA®: Best Short Contemporary Series|Contemporary Sweet]] category for ''[[Renegade Player]]''
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== On the Web ==
 
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* [http://www.dixiebrowning.com/] - Official Website
 
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* [http://www.writerspace.com/interviews/browning2001.html] - Interview with Dixie Browning at Writerspace
 

Revision as of 03:14, 16 October 2022


Dixie Burrus was born on September 09, 1930 in North Carolina's Outer Banks, U.S.A, where her family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams. Her father was the professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, she has two sisters, Mary and Sarah Burrus.

Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Bronwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.

See Also

On the Web

  • [1] - Official Website
  • [2] - Interview with Dixie Browning at Writerspace


Books

Honors

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