Brown (August 29, 1964 – October 5, 2011) was a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) author and historian whose emphasis was on the history and doctrine of Joseph Smith and his successors through Brigham Young.
Brown was born in Portland, Oregon on August 29, 1964, and lived in Alabama, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, and Utah.
in History from Brigham Young University and began to work as a book writer and manuscript evaluator.
[citation needed] Brown died October 5, 2011, after suffering heart failure on September 23 while he was in the BYU library, and falling into a subsequent coma.
[1] Brown authored several non-fiction books, as well as a few research-based articles for the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies and the FARMS Review—both of which are publications of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) within the Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.