Deanne Stillman is a widely published, critically acclaimed writer. Her books include Blood Brothers (Ohioana Book Award Winner; Kirkus Reviews, starred review; “Best of the West 2018,” True West Magazine); Desert Reckoning (winner of the Spur and LA Press Club Awards for Nonfiction, an Amazon Editors Pick, based on a Rolling Stone piece), and Mustang, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. In addition, she wrote the cult classic,Twentynine Palms, a Los Angeles Times bestseller that Hunter Thompson called “A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer.” She writes the “Letter from the West” column for the Los Angeles Review of Books and her plays have been produced and won prizes around the country. She's a member of the core faculty at the UC Riverside-Palm Desert MFA Low Residency Creative Writing Program, where she teaches nonfiction.
"Stillman gives an account of the tragic murder of Sitting Bull
that’s as good as any in the literature. . . . Thoughtful and
thoroughly well-told—just the right treatment for a subject about
which many books have been written before, few so
successfully."
*Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
"Best of the West 2018. . . . Not to miss."
*True West*
“Two years ago I published an essay here called 'How the West Was
Lost.' In it, a handful of gifted writers—Ivan Doig, Joan
Didion, Edward Abbey, and Jim Harrison—offered their takes on how
Americans have despoiled their frontier. . . . Now I would like to
nominate Deanne Stillman for admission to this distinguished
group.”
*The Millions*
"A compelling narrative that reads like a novel.”
*Orange County Register*
"Splendid. . . . A strong sense of the spiritual power of
place streams throughout. . . . [Stillman] has done a superb job
capturing the essence of these two great Americans."
*Austin Chronicle*
"Deanne Stillman's work is like one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s
landscapes, forcing a different perspective on the American West.
Stillman re-catechizes our national mythology by putting symbols
and personas that we already think we know into new light."
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
"Deanne Stillman explores a historical anomaly with a researcher’s
skill and a storyteller’s style."
*Lincoln Journal Star*
“Deanne Stillman’s Blood Brothers is a thrilling and elegantly
written saga anchored around the strange friendship between Sitting
Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody. By puncturing the mythology of the Wild
West, Stillman proves once again that fact is always more
surprising than fiction. A landmark achievement in American
history!”
*Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University, CNN
Presidential Historian, and author of The Wilderness Warrior:
Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America*
“Blood Brothers is a story of sorrow and triumph — the sorrow of
Sitting Bull’s murder in 1890 and the triumph, barely understood at
the time, of Buffalo Bill Cody’s central role in preserving the
robust culture of the Lakota and Cheyenne people whom Sitting Bull
had led in war. Deanne Stillman tells the dramatic story of
these two men — enemies first, then showmen, and friends at the
last.”
*Thomas Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse*
“Like a latter-day Joan Didion, Deanne Stillman has carved out an
aspect of the American West. Not empty but populated by
spirits, human and animal, the ghosts of lost tribes and now a
fascinating culture clash only she could have offered."
*Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare
Wars*
“A well-researched, well-told story of two of America’s bright
icons, set against the background of the closing of the West.”
*Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: the Life and
Times of Sitting Bull*
“Embedded near the heart of this surprising friendship lies an
amazing portrait of the man who is arguably the greatest
military/civilian leader in all American history—Tatanka Iyotake,
Sitting Bull.”
*Doug Peacock, author of In the Shadow of the Sabertooth*
“The lives of two of the most iconic figures in American history
intersect in a sad but fitting setting -- a traveling Wild West
show that gave both Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull second lives
after their frontier days had ended. Deanne Stillman authentically
recreates the lives and times of the killer of buffalo and the
‘killer of Custer’ who joined forces as popular entertainers.”
*Tom Clavin, coauthor of The Heart of Everything That Is*
"Thoroughly researched, Stillman’s account of this period in
American history is elucidating as well as entertaining."
*Booklist*
“We’ve all heard of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody, but how
many of us know about the friendship shared by these two historical
figures? Deanne Stillman is here to fix that with her riveting new
book Blood Brothers.”
*Bookish.com*
“After hundreds of books and magazine articles published over
nearly 150 years, one would think there would be little, if
anything, left to be said about either Sitting Bull and Buffalo
Bill. Leave it to Deanne Stillman to prove that notion
wrong. Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship
between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill casts these two icons of
American history in a refreshing new light. As with all
Stillman’s books, Blood Brothers is thoroughly researched and
exquisitely written. Her telling of the friendship of these two
titans of the West makes for compelling reading from the very first
page.”
*W.K. Stratton, author of Chasing the Rodeo, Floyd Patterson, and
Ranchero Ford/Dying in Red Dirt Country; Fellow of the Texas
Institute of Letters*
“Like a hybrid lovechild of Pete Dexter’s great novel Deadwood and
T.J. Stiles’s nonfiction masterpiece Jesse James: Last Rebel of the
Civil War, Deanne Stillman’s Blood Brothers is both a celebration
of the American West and a paean to its myths, similar to Evan S.
Connell’s bestseller about Custer and the Little Bighorn, Son of
the Morning Star. Compelling and compassionate, Blood Brothers
expands our understanding of two Western legends, Sitting Bull and
Buffalo Bill Cody, and is a high-spirited, entertaining read to
boot.”
*William J. Cobb, author of The Bird Saviors*
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