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D. Dauphinee

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in Bangor, ME, The United States

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http://www.ddauphinee.com

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D.Dauphinne@Piscatore1

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Fiction, Contemporary, Nonfiction

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Steinbeck, White, Dostoyevsky

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Dee is an American author of novels, biographies, and essays. His writing has gained a following with readers interested in the out-of-doors, history, travel, human interest, fly fishing, and the construction of essays. He has been a farmer, a photographer, a fishing & mountaineering guide, and an orthopaedic physician’s assistant. For seven years he was a semi-pro wide receiver in the Canadian Football League’s farm system, and in the Eastern Football League. Dee has lived in Europe and South America.
Dee was born with wanderlust in Bangor, Maine. After graduating from high school, he made his way to Wyoming. He spent the next decade splitting his time between Jackson Hole, WY, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Living in Jackson Hole in th Dee is an American author of novels, biographies, and essays. His writing has gained a following with readers interested in the out-of-doors, history, travel, human interest, fly fishing, and the construction of essays. He has been a farmer, a photographer, a fishing & mountaineering guide, and an orthopaedic physician’s assistant. For seven years he was a semi-pro wide receiver in the Canadian Football League’s farm system, and in the Eastern Football League. Dee has lived in Europe and South America.
Dee was born with wanderlust in Bangor, Maine. After graduating from high school, he made his way to Wyoming. He spent the next decade splitting his time between Jackson Hole, WY, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Living in Jackson Hole in the 1980's was Heaven, he recalls...he was climbing mountains or fly fishing every second he could. Photography and climbing too Dee to many places including El Salvador, Peru, the Arctic, throughout Europe, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Ecuador, Jordan, the UK, Panama, Lebanon, Kenya, Algeria, Columbia, and many places in between where he did contract and spec work for several media outlets, including United Press International.
Dee has led or co-led mountaineering, desert, and jungle expeditions on 5 continents, and has climbed above 20,000 feet above sea level fourteen times; at one time, more than any Maine native. He has been involved in several state and international Search & Rescue teams.
Dee has contributed articles, photographs, and essays to many periodicals for thirty years, including National Geographic, The Canadian Geographic, Outside Magazine, Mariah, Backpacker, Climbing, and Ascent, magazines, to name only a few.
Dee has had two books published by North Country Press; Stoneflies & Turtleheads, a collection of fly-fishing essays from Maine and around the world, and The River Home, a novel. Highlanders Without Kilts, an award-winning historical fiction about a Canadian family’s ordeal during WWI and a Nova Scotia battalion’s odyssey in that war was released May 2015 by Kicking Pig Press. Dee’s new book, When You Find My Body, is about Appalachian Trail hiker Geraldine Largay who became lost in Maine in 2013. Despite the largest manhunt in Maine’s history, Gerry was not found, and she perished. It was released in June 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield (Globe Pequot Press). By the second week of June 2019, it was recorded on two Bestseller lists.

Dee lives in Middle Maine with his wife and two children, who all hike and fish.

Dee is represented by Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency.

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D. Dauphinee While backpacking through Europe during the summer of 1988, I stumbled upon the World War 1 memorial at Vimy Ridge. I had no idea what hallowed ground…moreWhile backpacking through Europe during the summer of 1988, I stumbled upon the World War 1 memorial at Vimy Ridge. I had no idea what hallowed ground I was standing on. In fact, at the time, I had no knowledge that I was standing on Canadian soil. Poised at the base of the memorial, I must have looked a bit confused; a French visitor offered some information. He was much older than I was then. Tentatively, he asked if I knew what had happened here, seventy-one years ago. I shook my head.

The gentleman was dressed simply, in a light blue windbreaker, and pressed beige pants. I had been flopping from hostel to hostel for a month, and was not so nicely turned out.

He looked up at the two great monoliths, craning his head back very far. I just stared at the thousands of names etched into the limestone. Then he looked out at the green grass and well defined pathways, and waved his hand across the entire valley and hillside. “This was nothing but mud,” he said. “Not just mud…but twisted metal, barbed wire, tattered cloth, and bones; rotting carcasses everywhere. There were many bones—of men, and horses.” He looked very serious and sad. “Of course, I wasn’t here, in the war,” he told me, “I was just a boy…but I knew some who were here.”
He said he had come here many times, that it wasn’t too far for him to travel. He told me he had come with his parents to see all the Canadians at the memorial’s dedication ceremony. He told me a lot of what he knew of the battle. He told me, “We French had tried for over a year to take the heights from the Germans, but lost more than a hundred-thousand men.” A disgusted look appeared on the old fellow’s face. “It became a revolving suicidal mission. They just couldn’t do it.” The old man pointed a bent index finger at me. “The Canadians…they figured it out.”
After over an hour, I offered to buy him lunch, but he declined. He had to go, he told me, and then finally introduced himself. When I told him my name was Denis, but that most people called me Dee, he asked, “Your family name?” I looked back at the wall of names, reached out my arm, and tapped a name on the cold limestone: Dauphinee.
Over the last quarter century I forgot the gentleman’s name, and cannot find it in my journals—another name lost to history—if only my own, personal history. But other names from that day have stayed etched in my memory, like they are in the cold stone at Vimy Ridge. Who were these boys, who died so far from home? What were they like? What were they facing in 1917?

Many years later, my sister began researching our family history. I found our lineage interesting, and her work became the catalyst for me starting my own search for a nineteen-year-old named Stanley from Nova Scotia.
A simple inquiry of who he was became an epic journey of discovery and learning. It became an odyssey, one that helped me understand a gallant moment in history: a moment that defined an army, and helped shape a nation’s sense of self.

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	When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail 3.91 avg rating — 3,003 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Highlanders Without Kilts 4.38 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Sage of Dibbin Creek: A Struggling Boy Finds Friendship, Insight, and Life Lessons Through Fly Fishing by D. Dauphinee (Goodreads Author), Dee Dauphinee (AKA) 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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All the Creatures that Breathe: A Novel Based On Real Events

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About the time my last book, "When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail" came out, I was invited (likely by accident) to a dinner for writers in Maine's capital.
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“It doesn't matter now that they lived and died, but rather did they make a difference?”
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“When you find my body, please call my husband George and my daughter Kerry. It will be the greatest kindness for them to know that I am dead and where you found me - no matter how many years from now.”
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“She felt the pain--an unspeakable pain--welling up from some unfamililiar place in her gut.”
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