Fred Wright Brown

Born: November 24, 1941
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Hometown: Cedartown, GA
Residence: Knoxville, TN
Education: BA (English) Presbyterian College, 1963; NEH Fellowship at the University of Michigan, 1983-1984
Career: Front page columnist, Sunday Editor, Sports Editor, Pensacola News-Journal, 1963-1966 & 1968-1975; Sports writer, Atlanta Journal, 1966-1968; Managing Editor, West Memphis Evening Times, 1975-1976; Editor, West Memphis Evening Times, 1976-1978; Writer, Memphis Press Scimitar, 1978-1983; Feature Writer, Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1984-; President, Knoxville Writer's Guild, 1999-2000
Awards: Malcolm Law Award, 1982; Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1983; Tennessee Press Association's Best Feature Writer Award, 1985; Scripps Howard Writing Hall of Fame, inducted 1986; Environmental Policy Institute Award for Environmental Writing, 1987; Feature Writing, Society of Professional Journalists, First Place, 1989; East Tennessee Historical Society History in the Media Award, 1990; Sigma Delta Chi Honorable Mention, Spot News, Gulf War coverage, 1991
Genres: Journalism, Other Nonfiction, Fiction

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Biography:

Fred Brown is an award-winning writer who has published widely. He has five nonfiction books to his credit, and has published nonfiction as well as fiction in magazines and literary journals. He won a 1984 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at The University of Michigan where he studied southern history. He is a member of the Scripps Howard Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Malcolm Law Trophy for Feature Writing.

--Fred Brown

Primary Bibliography:

  • The Faces of East Tennessee: An Historical Perspective on the Counties of East Tennessee, Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1990
  • Coker Creek: Crossroads to History, Coker Creek Ruritan Club, 1991
  • History of Commission on Religion in Appalachia, 1992-93
  • Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Writers, Blue Ridge Publishing, 1997
  • The Serpent Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith (with wife Jeanne McDonald), J. F. Blair, 2000
  • Discovering October Roads: Fall Colors and Geology in Rural East Tennessee (with Harry Moore), The University of Tennessee Press, 2001

Articles, Chapters, and Stories:

  • "Mining Reform," Sierra 71, no. 5 (September/October 1986)
  • "Tillman Cadle, Memories of the Coalfields," Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 7, no. 7 (Fall 1990), Center for Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee State University
  • "Character Building," Storytelling Magazine 3, no. 4 (Fall 1991)
  • "Seniors: Telling Tales to Life's Upperclassmen," Storytelling Magazine 4, no. 4 (Fall 1992)
  • "Portraits: Liston Pack: Out of the World's Black Belly." and "Charles Prince: God's Hero," in Serpent-Handling Believers, Thomas G. Burton, The University of Tennessee Press, 1993
  • "The Devil's Roost" in Voices From the Valley: An Anthology of Knoxville Writers, ed. Jeanne McDonald, Knoxville Writers’ Guild, 1994
  • "We Can Eat Sparrows," New Millennium Writings 1, no. 2 (Fall & Winter 1996), New Millennium Writing Partnership

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