"I am fascinated with the gray area between right and wrong and good and evil," Brown told Edward Morris in a
Bookpage interview. "Every novel I've written so far has explored that gray area."
From Teaching Literature to Making It
Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1964, Brown was brought up in close proximity to the world of the prestigious prep school, Phillips Exeter Academy, where his father, a Presidential Award-winning math instructor, taught. His mother was a professional sacred musician; Brown thus grew up influenced by both traditions. As he noted on his author's Web site, he was raised "surrounded by the paradoxical philosophies of science and religion." He also grew up wanting to write, as he explained on Oprah.com. "I published my first book when I was five years old," Brown noted. Instead of actually writing it, he dictated it to his mother. "I remember the excitement I felt to see my story expanding across sheet after sheet of white paper," the author further recalled. He was able to sign the finished version, in Crayon, with a hastily scrawled version of his name.
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