His parents, Irving H. Brown and Helen Feigenbaum, migrated to the United States shortly before the First World War.

Pilgrim Press[13] ISBN 9780829803761 Fast Forward: The New Television and American Society, with Savannah Waring Walker.

Andrews McMeel Publications, ISBN 9780836262087 Electric Media, by Les Brown and Sema Marks, was one of six books in the "Making Contact" series published by Harcourt Brace.

ISBN 0-15-318734-4 During a strike at The New York Times in 1981,[14] Brown founded Channels of Communication as a non-profit venture funded by the Markle Foundation.

[17] Brown opened the Gate of Horn, a 100-seat folk music club in Chicago in 1956[18] with his college classmate Albert Grossman.

The Gate of Horn hosted Roger McGuinn, Odetta, Lenny Bruce and Bill Cosby, among other future stars.

Ten years before the birth of social media, Brown warned about the dangers to democracy as sources of news and commentary proliferated.