Daniel James Brown
Narrative nonfiction author
Daniel James Brown is an American author of narrative nonfiction about historical events. He wrote The Boys in the Boat, a New York Times bestseller.
1 summary 17 min of listening
American Born 1951 in Berkeley, United States
About Daniel James Brown
Daniel James Brown was born in 1951 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His studies took him to Diablo Valley College, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to give writing instruction at Stanford and San Jose State University, then worked as a technical writer and editor. He later became a full-time writer of narrative nonfiction. The Boys in the Boat tells of nine working class young Americans who rowed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and it became a New York Times bestseller. His first book, Under a Flaming Sky, recounts the 1894 Hinckley firestorm, in which his great-grandfather died. He has also written The Indifferent Stars Above, about a Donner Party bride, and Facing the Mountain, about four young Japanese American men during World War II.