Wayne Vincent Brown (born 18 July 1944 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; died 15 September 2009 in Stony Hill, Jamaica) was a columnist, poet and fiction writer, and a teacher and mentor to numerous Caribbean writers.
His mother died soon after giving birth to him, and for most of his childhood Wayne was brought up by relatives, while his father worked as a puisne judge.
His works also include Landscape with Heron (2000), Edna Manley: The Private Years (1976), Voyages (1989) and The Child of the Sea (1990).
His final writing engagement had been a weekly column, "In the Obama Era", for the Express, the Barbados Daily Nation and Guyana's Stabroek News.
The University of Leeds Special Collections holds The Wayne Brown Archive,[10] featuring six boxes of manuscript, typescript, photographs, postcards, press cuttings, greeting cards, scrapbooks and printed material.