Alice Brown (December 5, 1857 – June 21, 1948)[1] was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories.

She was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and graduated from Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter in 1876.

Michael Earls of the College of the Holy Cross and with Father J. M. Lelen of Falmouth, Kentucky, with whom she also exchanged poems.

Yale University and Holy Cross now have the only sizable collections of her letters, since she ordered that most of her personal correspondence should be destroyed after her death.

This book also has a sketch on the preceding page with the title "Where Alice Brown lived".