Harry Brown Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the Young Poets Prize from "Poetry" magazine in 1936
• While serving in the U․S․ Army Corps of Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va․, he wrote a column for "Yank" magazine under the pen name PFC Artie Greengroin
• Before he worked in the film industry, he wrote for "The New Yorker" and "Time" magazine
• Many of his writings explored the theme of war, including the screenplays for "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "The Sixth of June" and his 158-page epic poem, "The Poem of Bunker Hill․"
• Was a novelist and a poet, in addition to being a screenwriter, and wrote a play and a novel that were both later adapted into film as "Eight Iron Men" and "A Walk in the Sun" respectively
• Became friends with poet Robert Lowell while he was studying at Harvard University
• Lived and wrote in Guanajuato, Mexico, for almost 15 years