Dixie Browning


Dixie Browning, née Burrus was an American artist and writer of over 100 romance novels. She also published under the pen name Zoe Dozier, and with her sister Mary Burrus Williams, she wrote historical romance under the name Bronwyn Williams. She was a recipient of the RITA Award.

Biography

Dixie Burrus was born in 1930 on North Carolina's Outer Banks, daughter of professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus. She learned from a young age to enjoy the water and the outdoors, and to spend plenty of time lying down with a good book. Browning considered herself foremost an artist. She studied and later taught art. She painted landscapes and seascapes in watercolor, and was listed in Who's Who in American Art.
In 1975, Browning began writing a newspaper column on art. Shortly thereafter, she decided to try fiction. As she had recently begun reading romance novels, she attempted to recreate the pieces of the genre that appealed to her. This tactic worked, as in 1976, Avalon published her first two romances. She then published over 100 category romance novels. She was awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and was a five-time RITA finalist. She also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club. At the end of 2004, after Browning had submitted yet another manuscript, she realized that writing was not as exciting for her as it had been. She began painting again, and after that concentrated primarily on her art.
Browning co-founded and served as the first president of The Watercolor Society of North Carolina. She was also a co-owner of Browning Artworks in Frisco, North Carolina, which featured her own work as well as that of her son and daughter-in-law.
Browning lived in North Carolina with her husband, Leonard "Lee" Browning, until his death in 2011. Browning died on June 11, 2024, at the age of 93.

Awards

As Dixie Browning

Renegade Player: 1983 Rita Awards Best Novel winner

As Zoe Dozier

Single novels

Home Again, My Love Avalon 1977Warm Side of the Island Avalon 1977

As Dixie Browning

Stand-alone novels

Unreasonable Summer Silhouette Romance 5/80Tumbled Wall Silhouette Romance 10/80Chance Tomorrow Silhouette Romance 1/81Wren of Paradise Silhouette Romance 4/81East of Today Silhouette Romance 7/81Winter Blossom Silhouette Romance 11/81Renegade Player Silhouette Romance 4/82Island on the Hill Silhouette Romance 7/82Logic of the Heart Silhouette Romance 9/82Finders Keepers Silhouette Special Ed. 10/82Loving Rescue Silhouette Romance 12/82A Secret Valentine Silhouette Romance 2/83Practical Dreamer Silhouette Special Ed. 5/83Shadow of Yesterday Silhouette Desire 6/83Reach Out to Cherish Silhouette Special Ed. 8/83Image of Love Silhouette Desire 10/83The Hawk and the Honey Silhouette Desire 1/84Visible Heart Silhouette Romance 2/84Late Rising Moon Silhouette Desire 3/84Journey to Quiet Waters Silhouette Romance 5/84The Love Thing Silhouette Romance 7/84Just Desserts Silhouette Special Ed. 8/84First Things Last Silhouette Romance 10/84Stormwatch Silhouette Desire 11/84Time and Tide Silhouette Special Ed. 12/84The Tender Barbarian Silhouette Desire 2/85By Any Other Name Silhouette Special Ed. 3/85Matchmaker's Moon Silhouette Desire 6/85Something For Herself Silhouette Romance 8/85A Bird in Hand Silhouette Desire 9/85In the Palm of Her Hand Silhouette Desire 2/86The Security Man Silhouette Special Ed. 6/86Reluctant Dreamer Silhouette Romance 10/86A Winter Woman Silhouette Desire 12/86There Once Was a Lover Silhouette Desire 3/87A Matter of Timing Silhouette Romance 9/87Belonging Silhouette Special Ed. 10/87Henry the Ninth Silhouette Xmas novella 11/87Fate Takes a Holiday Silhouette Desire 4/88Along Came Jones Silhouette Desire 6/88Thin Ice Silhouette Desire 1/89Beginners Luck Silhouette Desire 9/89Ships in the Night Silhouette Desire 1/90Twice in a Blue Moon Silhouette Desire 8/90The Homing Instinct Silhouette Romance 9/90Just Say Yes Silhouette Desire 9/91Not a Marrying Man Silhouette Desire 11/91Gus and the Nice Lady Silhouette Desire 2/92The Best Man for the Job Silhouette Desire 6/92Hazards of the Heart Silhouette Desire 4/93Kane's Way Silhouette Desire 8/93Grace and the Law Silhouette Novella 4/94Bedeviled Topaz 3/95Single Female Seeks Silhouette 11/95Look What the Stork Brought Silhouette Desire 12/97Entwined Topaz 8/98The Texas Millionaire Silhouette Desire 8/99The Bride-in-Law Silhouette Desire 11/99Cinderella's Midnight Kiss Silhouette 6/00Long Shadow's Woman Harlequin Super 3/01More to Love Silhouette Desire 6/01Rocky and the Senator's Daughter Silhouette Desire 11/01The Marrying Millionaire Silhouette Anthology 07/02Undertow Silhouette Single Title 07/03Blackstone's Bride Harlequin Historical 08/03Christmas Eve Reunion Silhouette Anthology 11/03Social Graces Silhouette Desire 12/03Driven to Distraction Silhouette Desire 03/04Her Passionate Plan B Silhouette Desire 01/05Her Man Upstairs Silhouette Desire 02/05Her Fifth Husband? Silhouette Desire 03/04

Outer Banks series

  1. Keegan's Hunt Silhouette Desire 11/93
  2. Lucy and the Stone Silhouette Desire 5/94
  3. Two Hearts, Slight Used Silhouette Desire 11/94

Tall, Dark and Handsome series

  1. Alex and the Angel Silhouette Desire 9/95
  2. The Beast, The Beauty, The Baby Silhouette Desire 3/96
  3. Stryker's Wife Silhouette Desire 11/96

Lawless Heirs series

  1. The Passionate G-Man Silhouette Desire 5/98
  2. His Business, Her Baby Silhouette 11/98
  3. A Knight in Rusty Armor Silhouette Desire 2/99

Passionate Powers series

  1. A Bride for Jackson Powers Silhouette Desire 2/00
  2. The Virgin and the Vengeful Groom Silhouette Desire 11/00

Beckett's Fortune series

  1. Beckett's Cinderella Silhouette Desire 08/02
  2. Beckett's Birthright Harlequin Historical 11/02
  3. Beckett's Convenient Bride Silhouette Desire 01/03

Daddy Knows Last series (multi-author)

The Baby Notion Silhouette Desire 7/96

Texas Cattleman's Club: The Last Bachelor series (multi-author)

The Millionaire's Pregnant Bride Silhouette Desire 02/02

Lone Star Country Club series (multi-author)

The Quiet Seduction Silhouette Books 11/02

Collections

Bad Boys: the Tender Barbarian / Golden Man / The Gentling Lawless Lovers: The Passionate G-Man / His Business, Her Baby
  • ''Her Passionate Plan B / Her Man Upstairs''

Omnibus in collaboration

Silhouette Christmas Stories: 1987: Bluebird Winter / Henry the Ninth / Season of Miracles / Humbug Man Wild Lady / Circumstantial Evidence / Island on the Hill Visible Heart / Handyman Special / Wanderer's Dream Spring Fancy Spring Fever A Daddy Again Made for Love Going to the Chapel Tender Love Stories: Compliments of the Groom / Who's Holding the Baby?/ One-night Wife / A Secret Valentine/ East of Today Her Personal Protector A Man of Means / The Millionaire's Pregnant Bride Home for the Holidays A Cowboy and a Gentleman / Beckett's Children Beckett's Convenient Bride / The Sheikh's Bidding Social Graces / Having the Tycoon's Baby Driven to Distraction / Like a Hurricane Beauty and the Baby / Social Graces Driven to Distraction / Cherokee Stranger Baby Notion / Like Lightning Beckett's Convenient Bride / New Year's Baby / Danger Becomes You Her Fifth Husband? / Last Reilly Standing The Virgin's Awakening
  • ''Christmas Stories''

As Bronwyn Williams

Single novels

White Witch Harlequin Historical 8/88Dandelion Harlequin Historical 3/89Stormwalker Harlequin Historical 6/90Gideon's Fall Harlequin Historical 3/91The Mariner's Bride Harlequin Historical 11/91A Promise Kept Harlequin Historical Christmas novella 10/93The Warfield Bride Topaz 9/94Slow Surrender Topaz 12/95Halfway Home Topaz 8/96Sunshine Topaz Novella 5/97Seaspell Topaz 8/97Beholden Topaz 9/98The Paper Marriage Harlequin Historical 8/00Good as Gold Harlequin Historical 8/01The Mail-Order Brides Harlequin Historical 12/01

Omnibus in collaboration

  • Harlequin Historical Christmas Stories: 1992
  • Heart of the Home
  • Big Sky Grooms: Spirit of the Wolf / As Good As Gold / The Gamble
  • Gamble / As Good as Gold / Spirit of the Wolf
  • Montana Legends

Works as illustrator

North Carolina ParadeDrawing and Painting the Natural Environment by Barclay Sheaks