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Harry Peter McNab Brown Jr. (April 30, 1917 – November 2, 1986) was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter.
Poet, novelist, and screenwriter Harry Brown was born in Portland, Maine. He attended Harvard for two years, where he befriended poet Robert Lowell. After leaving school, Brown worked at Time magazine and the New Yorker.
Brown wrote the novel A Walk in the Sun in 1944, which was made into a film in 1945. Director Lewis Milestone asked Brown to come to Hollywood as a screenwriter where he worked on films including Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), A Place in the Sun (1951) (winning an Oscar), and Ocean's 11 (1960).
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Quick Reference. (1917–1986), first wrote humorous sketches about a Brooklyn GI in Britain during World War II, collected in Artie Greengroin, Pfc. (1945). His other writing about the war is serious, including A Walk in the Sun (1944) and A Sound of Hunting (1946), respectively a novelette and a play about U.S. soldiers in Italy.
Harry Peter McNab Brown, Jr. (April 30, 1917 – November 2, 1986) was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Born in Portland, Maine, he was educated at Harvard University, where he was friends with American poet, Robert Lowell.
With a Walk in the Sun, Harry Brown tells an understated yet gripping and realistic tale of the randomness and impersonal nature of combat. In the Allied landings at Salerno on the Italian peninsula during World War II, a fictional platoon loses its lieutenant and senior sergeant to enemy fire, regroups inland to decide what to do, and soon ...
Harry Brown was born on 30 April 1917 in Portland, Maine, USA. He was a writer, known for A Place in the Sun (1951), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Ocean's Eleven (1960). He was married to Marguerite Lamkin and June. He died on 2 November 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
