Kevin Brown (author)

Kevin Brown
Born	September 3, 1960 Kansas City, Missouri
Nationality	American
Alma mater	City University of New York (CUNY)
Occupations	Writer essayist critic translator
Years active	from 1978
Organization	PEN American Center

Kevin Brown (born September 3, 1960) is an American biographer, essayist, translator, and author. Born in

Moving forward, Brown wrote, contributed, or anthologized in

In 1985, Brown worked as an editorial assistant in the publishing industry in New York, and contributed to The Times Literary Supplement.

In 1986, Brown moved to New York, attending the

From 1987 to 1989, Brown was a regular contributor to Kirkus Reviews, where he published book reviews on subjects as various as Africa, African-American writers, 20th century American poetry, Anglo-American common law, Australian-New Zealand writers, French history and literature, the Harlem Renaissance, music, photography, politics.^[1]

During the 1990s, he traveled in Central America and Eastern Europe, contributed to the American Book Review, American Visions and New York Newsday, and contracted to begin work on a series of biographies on Romare Bearden, Malcolm X and Countee Cullen.^[1]

In 1994, Brown's biography of Romare Bearden, Romare Bearden: Artist, was released.^[4]

In 1995, Brown's biography of Malcolm X Malcolm X: His Life and Legacy was released.^[5] Commissioned in 1993, just after the release of Spike Lee's movie on the same subject, Brown's second book attempts to chronicle the rise and fall of Malcolm X as well as that of rival leader Martin Luther King against the backdrop of the civil rights and black nationalist movements.^[6]

In 1999, Brown was a contributing editor for the book African American Desk Reference about essential information on African American history. Brown provided chapter 14 on music.^[7]

Brown's 2005 translation into Spanish of

In 2006, his profile-interview of translator Gregory Rabassa was published in 2006 by the University of Delaware's Review of Latin American Studies.^[8]

Throughout his career, Brown contributed essays and articles for

Brown lived in New York for 22 years, from 1985 to 2007, during which time he married and had a son. Brown returned to California in 2007, and currently lives in San Diego.^[1]

Family history

Brown's career and writing were influenced by his family history. His father, John Brown, was a writer and running back with the late 1950s Iowa Hawkeyes football team who played in the 1959 Rose Bowl. In the mid-1960s, John Brown was acquainted with writers William S. Burroughs, Ted Joans, and other writers of the Beat Generation. Brown's mother, Duan Nimmons, was born (1940) in New York City, where her family had been active in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and early 1930s. His maternal great-grandmother was Ida Mae Roberson (later, Ida Cullen-Cooper), widow of Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen.^[1]

Partial bibliography

Biographies

• Brown, Kevin (1995). Romare Bearden. New York: Chelsea House.
  OCLC 29878239
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• Brown, Kevin (1995). Malcolm X : his life and legacy. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press.
  OCLC 31044784
  .

• The New York Public Library African American desk reference. New York: J. Wiley & Sons. 1999.
  OCLC 43421314
  .

• "The Soul and the Dance" (On Carlos Saura). The Threepenny Review, Volume 18. (Summer 1984) pages 20–22.
• "The Epistles of James". (On James Baldwin) The Threepenny Review, Volume 19. (Autumn 1984), pages 6–8.
• "Woolf diary, Sackville-West letters shed a new light on both women's lives" (On Virginia Woolf) Oakland Tribune, (April 10, 1984), D4
• "Images of the Spirit". (On Graciela Iturbide) Afterimage, Volume 34.6 (May/June 2007), pages 33–34.
• "After the Renaissance: The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois". (On W. E. B. Du Bois) The Nation, (11 December 2000), pages 52–57.

Selected translations

• Virginia Woolf, "Reviewing" (1939). eXchanges: a Journal of Literary Translation ("Saints and Sinners" Issue, Winter 2006)^[10]
• Utah State University Digital Library, "Latino/a Voices Project": Ana Cecilia Barragán interview July 27, 2007.
• Utah State University Digital Library, "Latino/a Voices Project": Jorge Rodas interview July 13, 2007.
• Bartolomé, Herman Efraín; Brown, Kevin (2014). Ocosingo war diary : voices from Chiapas. Philadelphia.
  OCLC 890614972.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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