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Harry Peter McNab Brown Jr. (April 30, 1917 – November 2, 1986) [1] was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Life. Born in Portland, Maine, [1] he was educated at Harvard University, [1] where he was friends with American poet Robert Lowell.
Harry Peter McNab Brown, Jr. was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter. Born in Portland, Maine, he was educated at Harvard University.Brown dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year to write poetry, work at Time magazine, and contributed to and became a sub-editor of The New Yorker.
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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.
Dec 1, 2018 · Harry Brown (1917-1986) was an American writer & poet who achieved a measure of success in the post-war era. Born in Maine and educated at Harvard, Brown had works of poetry published in 1941 after winning several poetry awards, including the Shelley Prize in 1939.
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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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.
Nov 4, 1986 · Harry Brown, a novelist, poet and Oscar-winning screenwriter, died of emphysema Sunday in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 69 years old.
