Background
Brown was born in Birmingham, the son of William Samuel Brown, a newspaper publisher, and Lucille Lokey Brown.
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Brown was born in Birmingham, the son of William Samuel Brown, a newspaper publisher, and Lucille Lokey Brown.
He is particularly remembered for the title character of his novel Addie Pray, the young "Mistress of the Con Game" during the Great Depression in the Deep South. The story later became the film Paper Moon. At age 20, he became a police reporter for the Birmingham Post and in the same year (1935) married Mildred Harbour, with whom he had two sons, David and Ted.
At age 21, Brown became city editor of the Dothan Eagle.
From 1935 to 1939, he worked for newspapers in Atlanta, Georgia. Chattanooga, Tennessee.
And Saint Louis, Missouri. In 1939, he began working for the New York Daily News, but his time there was interrupted in 1942 by World World War II, in which he served in the 460th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion (460th PFAB).
Brown returned to the Daily News, then from 1949 to 1957 was a foreign correspondent for Time and Life, serving in New Delhi, India, Paris, France, London, and Moscow.
In 1957, he became a freelance writer In the sixties he returned to work for Time as a contributing editors He also edited several books for Time-Life.
Three of Brown"s better-known novels became the basis of movies.
Kings Go Forth was made into a movie in 1958. Brown"s other, earlier novels are less well-known. is about an indentured servant"s quest for freedom in the American South. draws upon Brown"s military experiences (and also was made into a movie released in 1958), and highlights the contrast between the cultures of India and the United States.
Brown died on April 26, 1976, at his home in Georgia.
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