Dixie Browning

Dixie Burrus Browning is a U.S.American artist and romance writer of more than 80 novels. She began writting contemporany romance novels as ZoeDozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as BrownwynWilliams, 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.

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.