David W. Brown

David W. Brown is an American author who lives in

His work generally concerns space exploration and climate change. In 2016, he signed a publishing contract with HarperCollins to write a book titled The Mission, or: How a Disciple of Carl Sagan, an Ex-Motocross Racer, a Texas Tea Party Congressman, the World's Worst Typewriter Saleswoman, California Mountain People, and an Anonymous NASA Functionary Went to War with Mars, Survived an Insurgency at Saturn, Traded Blows with Washington, and Stole a Ride on an Alabama Moon Rocket to Send a Space Robot to Jupiter in Search of the Second Garden of Eden at the Bottom of an Alien Ocean Inside of an Ice World Called Europa (A True Story), about NASA's Europa exploration program.^[5][6] It is categorized as creative nonfiction,^[7] and was published in 2021.^[8]

Previously, he co-authored Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry and The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army with The Atlantic editor Marc Ambinder.^[9] Both books were published by

In 2019, he signed a second publishing contract with HarperCollins to write a memoir titled The Outside Cats, about two expeditions to Antarctica that he joined.^[11] He described the second expedition, to Thwaites Glacier, in an essay published in the November 28, 2022 issue of The New Yorker.^[12]

Brown is a former U.S. Army paratrooper

• Brown, David W. (January 26, 2021). The Mission (1st ed.). HarperCollins, New York.
  ISBN 978-0-0626544-2-7
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• Ambinder, Marc; Grady, D.B. (April 9, 2013). Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken.
  ISBN 978-1-118-14668-2
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• Ambinder, Marc; Grady, D.B. (February 7, 2012). The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken.
  ISBN 978-1-118-34672-3
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• Grady, D.B. (December 2, 2009).
  ISBN 978-0-9641674-3-8
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