His friends and wrote at night, producing some of his best works. He usually spent afternoons in a local bar with From early 1949 to early 1952, Brown lived Upon the outbreak of World War II, Brown tried to enlist,īut he was rejected due to his health. The Santa Fe railroad, and sold a number of stories for the pulp Monday's an Off Night' (in Detective Yarns', February 1939).įor some years, Brown lived in Albuquerque, in an attempt to help Brown'sįirst published detective tales were 'The Moon for a Nickel' (in Detective Story, March 1938) and ' Regular columns for The American Printer, but he bulk of his stories appeared in the trade magazines. Other members included William Cambell Gault and Larry Sterning. He also joined Milwaukee's Fictioneers Club, along with Robert Bloch, who edited in 1977 aĬollection of his stories. The marriage was not a happy one, and afterĭivorce Brown married in 1948 Elizabeth Charlier, whom he had first metīefore being employed by the Milwaukee Journal as a proofreader in 1936, Brown worked as a stenographer,Īn insurance salesman, a bookkeeper, a stock clerk, a diswasher, a busboy, and a detective. The family moved to Milwaukee, where they remained From 1929 to 1947 Brown was married to Helen Ruth they In 1927 Brown spent a semester at Hanover College, Indiana,Īnd the Bible. 2)Īt the time of his graduation in 1922 he was already a published ( Martians and Misplaced Clues: The Life and Work of Fredric Brown by Jack Searbrook, 1992, p. The yearbook listed him as one of the smallest boys in his class. Until 1936 he was an office worker.īrown was educated at University of Cincinnati night school, where Worked in odd jobs, read much, and dreamed of establishing himself as a writer. (1958) Brown returned to his first years out of high school, when he After his father died in 1921, Brown's uncle His mother died in 1920 when he was 14 this loss probably contributed to hisīecoming a lifelong atheist Brown's father was an atheist as well. Of Karl Lewis Brown, a newspaperman, and Emma Amelia (Graham) Brown. by Ed Gorman et al., 1998)įredric William Brown was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the only child Much more believable."' (from 'My Friend Fredric Brown' by Walt Sheldon in The Big Book of Noir, ed. That'll give him some sympathetic traits and make him
'Once I said to him I needed a model forĪn antagonist in one of my stories and was trying to think of someone I His plots were inventive, he used often humour and paradoxes, and his sex scenes were gleefully provocative. Fredric Brown also wrote television plays
Published science fiction to overcome – as he said – the too realĪspect of detective fiction. One of the most ingenious American crime and mystery writers, who A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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