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A Short Biography of John Mason Brown

Author Name:

John Mason Brown

Born As:

John Mason Brown

Other Names:

Born:

03 Jul 1900

Died:

16 Mar 1969




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Drama critic and author                          
Selected works:

To All Hands - Documents his activities aboard the USS Ancon (AGC-4) during Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily.

"Seeing Things" column appeared in The Saturday Review starting in 1944 until his death in New York City.                          
                          
Worked for the New York Evening Post from 1929 to 1941.

Brown resigned from the Pulitzer Prize drama jury in 1963 when the advisory board refused his recommendation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.