Scott Brown is an American author, screenwriter, journalist, critic and occasional composer based in New York and Western Massachusetts.
In 2013, writing for New York magazine, he won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
His television credits include HBO's Emmy-nominated miniseries Sharp Objects, based on the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name, as well as WGN's critically acclaimed Manhattan.
He currently writes and serves as co-executive producer for the Stephen King-derived suspense series Castle Rock on Hulu, for which he received the 2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Original.
[4] He is also a consulting producer on the Amazon Prime Video series Utopia, adapted by Gillian Flynn from the original work.