James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten are American television writers, primarily working on soap operas.
[1] Brown and Esensten tended to drift towards supernatural and science fiction elements in the shows they were hired for.
When the two wrote for Guiding Light during the later part of the 1990s, the show's primary heroine, Reva Shayne, was cloned, and when the duo would later write for Port Charles, vampires were introduced, along with other supernatural creatures.
Most of her adult life, Barbara and her husband Jack, lived in the affluent Palos Verdes, south of Los Angeles.
Barbara was an accomplished pianist, an avid reader, and very much loved her family.