Brock Brower

Brock Hendrickson Brower (November 27, 1931 – April 16, 2014) was an American novelist, magazine journalist, and TV writer of various magazines, including Esquire, Life, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine.

Background

The son of Charles H. Brower, Brock Hendrickson Brower was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and raised in Westfield, New Jersey. In 1953, he graduated from Dartmouth College, where he served as managing editor for The Dartmouth. He then attended Harvard Law School but left to study English literature for his MA as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University's Merton College.

Career

From 1956 to 1958, Brower served two years in the U.S. Army in intelligence at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Personal life and death

In 1956, he married Ann Montgomery, an American fashion model, in Paris. Putting America’s House in Order (1996) with co-author David M. Abshire Blue Dog, Green River (2005)

Articles for Esquire: "The Art of Fiction CXI" (December 1959) "A Lament for Old-Time Radio" (April 1960) "The Great Bubble Gum War" (September 1960) "The Problems of Alger Hiss" (December 1960) "Who's in Among the Analysts" (July 1961) "Fraternities" (October 1961) "The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Revisited" (March 1962) "Mary McCarthyism" (July 1962) "The Brothers Cassini" (February 1963) "The Vulgarization of American Demonology" (June 1964) "Rockabye" (April 1968) "Dylan’s Boathouse" (January 1971) "Play It Again, Sam, Bogie, Harry, Wendell, Claude" (November 1971) "The Conscience of Leon Jaworski" (February 1975)