Kenneth Howard Brown (March 9, 1936 – February 5, 2022) was an American playwright and novelist.
His play, The Brig, won three Obie Awards.
[1] Brown was born in New York City, New York in Brooklyn, and served in the United States Marine Corps.
Brown went to Columbia University and was a bartender; He died on February 5, 2022, at the age of 85 in New York City in a hospice in the Queens from cancer.
[2][3] His papers are held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.