Cassie Brown
Cassie Eileen Brown (January 10, 1919 – December 30, 1986)[1] was a Newfoundland and Labrador journalist, author, publisher and editor.[2] Brown is most distinguished for her books Death on the Ice, which was featured in Reader's Digest, and The Wreck of the Florizel.
Early life and education
Brown was born in
Rose Blanche, Newfoundland, to Wilson and Caroline (Hillier) Horwood. Her early education took place in Rose Blanche, St. Georges, and, later, in St. John's after her family moved there when she was eleven years old. In St. John's, Brown's father worked as a freelance broadcaster and her mother as a teacher and entrepreneur. The tourist resort, "Karwood", established by Caroline Horwood on the outskirts of St. John's, would eventually become Brown's writing retreat.[3]
Career
Brown started writing when she was a teenager, beginning with newspaper articles. Later, her work expanded to include freelance script-writing and educational broadcasts for
The Daily News of St. John's from 1959 to 1966 and publisher of the magazine Newfoundland Women from 1961 to 1964.[3]
Brown was elected to the executive of the
Mt. Pearl
.
Bibliography
- Death on the Ice: The Great
- A Winter's Tale: The Wreck of the ISBN 0-9698767-4-2
- Standing Into Danger (1979) ISBN 1-894463-02-1
- The ISBN 0-9698767-3-4[5]
- Writing the Sea (2005) ISBN 1-894463-74-9
Adaptations
In 2011, an unabridged audiobook edition of Death on the Ice was narrated for Rattling Books by Newfoundland singer/songwriter Ron Hynes.
See also
- List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador
- List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador
References
- ^ Brown, Cassie (1929). "Cassie Brown collection Cassie Brown collection". openpolar.no. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
- ^ a b "Cassie Eileen Brown (1919-1986)". www.heritage.nf.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
- ^ OCLC 13441769.
- ^ Sullivan, Joan (June 16, 2015). "The seminal account of a century-old Newfoundland tragedy". Atlantic Books Today. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
- ISBN 9780969876731. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
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