The Sage of Dibbin Creek

In 1975, Sam Candage, a fatherless twelve-year-old boy with learning challenges, strains to learn to read and write. Alone, he finds solace in nature, fishing and exploring his favorite creek. Sam finds himself falling behind in school until he meets a wise and kind man who, through the sport of fly fishing, teaches him about biology, stewardship, and the true meaning of friendship. When the mentor teaches Sam how to read, the boy’s life is changed forever.

The Sage of Dibbin Creek is an engrossing account of Sam’s coming of age.

Dee is an American author of novels, biographies, and essays. His writing has gained a following with readers interested in the out-of-doors, human interest, history, travel, fly fishing. He has been a mountaineering and fly fishing guide, a photographer, a farmer, an orthopaedic physician's assistant, and a semi-pro football wide receiver.
Dee has published scores of magazine and newspaper articles and has had two books published by North Country Press: Stoneflies & Turtleheads, a collection of fly-fishing essays from around the world, and The River Home, a novel. Highlanders Without Kilts, a historical fiction about a Canadian family's ordeal and a Nova Scotia battalion's odyssey during WWI and the battle of Vimy Ridge (Battle of Arras), was published by Kicking Pig Press.
Dee's new book, All the Creatures that Breathe, is an adventure/travel/romance epic that takes place at Harvard University and Peru.
His last book, When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail, about a 2013 Appalachian Trail "thru-hiker's" tragic story was released June 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield.
His current projects are a Middle-Grade novel about mentorship titled The Sage of Dibbin Creek, and a screenplay based on The River Home.
Dee lives in Middle Maine