Carolyn Louise Brown (born October 22, 1948) is an American author of romance and women's fiction.

Carolyn Brown was born in Whitewright, Texas, on October 22, 1948, and raised in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.

She is a New York Times,[1][2] USA Today,[3] Publishers Weekly and Wall Street Journal[4] bestselling author.

[5][6] Brown has been published by Sourcebooks, Montlake Romance, Avalon Books, Kensington, and Grand Central.

[7] In 2020, Brown was a HOLT Medallion finalist for Novel with Romantic Elements for The Family Journal.