Irene Bennett Brown is an American author of children's, young adult and adult fiction.
Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas and when she was nine years old, moved with her family from Kansas to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
[citation needed] Brown's fourth book, To Rainbow Valley, became the first one to sell and be published in 1969.
Brown is a member of Western Writers of America and is a founding member of Women Writing the West.
She continues to live in Oregon with her husband, Bob.