Harry Brown (writer)

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Harry Peter McNab Brown, Jr. (April 30, 1917 – November 2, 1986) was a novelist and screenwriter.

Born in Portland, Maine, he was educated at Harvard University, where he was friends with American poet, Robert Lowell. He wrote the novel A Walk in the Sun, which was made into a film in 1945. As a screenwriter, Brown worked on films including Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), A Place in the Sun (1951), and Ocean's Eleven (1960). Brown also was credited for his work on the first Ocean's Eleven when it was remade in 2001.

Brown died from emphysema in 1986