About
D. Dauphinee
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 a wanderlust in Bangor, Maine. After graduating 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. Eventually, he learned that being only an average photographer, if he was willing to crawl on his belly for a mile in the mud, or not be adverse to being in harm’s way to get an image, photography might take him places. It did; 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.
No matter what he was doing, or where he was going, he was always in the company of a book, a journal, and a fly rod. When he wasn't taking pictures or interviewing people, he rigged-up his old Sage fly rod, and fished every ditch that might hold fish. Now he writes about those experiences.
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 book, When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalacian Trail, is about Appalachian Trail hiker Geraldine Largay who became lost in Maine in 2013. In spite of the largest manhunt in Maine’s history, Gerry was not found, and she perished. It was released June first 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield (Globe Pequot Press). By the second week of June it was recorded on two Betseller lists.
His novel All the Creatures that Breathe: A Novel Based on Real Events was the 2023 Indy Excellence Award winner.
Dee’s newest novel is his first attempt at Young Adult called The Sage of Dibbin Creek. It has been nominated for the Newbery Medal Award.
Dee lives in Bradley, Maine, with his wife and two children, who all hike and fish.
