John Gregory Brown (born July 31, 1960) is an American novelist and professor of English at Sweet Briar College.
[1] After spending the 2015-2016 academic year teaching at Deerfield Academy, he returned to Sweet Briar College.
[2] In The Los Angeles Times, Charles Solomon noted the writer's "great sensitivity.".
[3] Reviewing the book for the Chicago Tribune, Charles Larson called the book a "triumph...much of its magnificence is the result of the author's decision to create imaginative voices other than his own," concluding "John Gregory Brown is both the beneficiary of and a worthy successor to our finest Southern writers.
The Los Angeles Times called the novel "John Gregory Brown's gift of grace to us,"[6] and The Dallas Morning News wrote," John Gregory Brown is a strong new voice in American—not just Southern—fiction, and his work deserves the widest possible audience.