When the Century Was Young: A Writer's Notebook

An insightful and heartwarming memoir by one of twentieth-century America's most celebrated frontier writers and a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.

Dee Brown's fascinating memoir describes a writer's evolution—and a time when catching rides on trains or seeing the landing of a Curtiss Jenny airplane were simple and profound pleasures. Brown traces his upbringing in Arkansas in the early 1900s, and the oil boom that hit his tiny town. He writes of how he fell under the spell of books and...