I looked into the biographical information on Fredric Brown over the weekend and found a lot of it is wrong. So I thought I would go over some of the issues here. It strikes me that "Brownie," to use his high school nickname (though in spite of his surname he was blond), was one of the most important mid-century noirists or hard-boiled writers. Much of his work is back in print again, but he still seems not to get quite the credit that he should in my view (and the view of those in his ...
