Kenneth Brown

Kenneth Brown (March 9, 1868 – May 5, 1958) was an American journalist and writer. Brown was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents, Franklin B. and Caroline Frothingham (Morrill) Brown. He attended the University of Virginia for a short time, and he attended Harvard University for five years. and published numerous articles in popular magazines such as The Green Book Magazine, Munsey's Magazine, and Watson's Magazine. Brown published several books, and co-authored others with his wife and his brother-in-law. There is no record that he received a degree from Harvard, however, LeBaron Russell Briggs made an impact on his life; when Brown wrote his book, Putter Perkins, he dedicated his book to Briggs, writing:

For some years he was in newspaper work in Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Chicago. He worked for a short time at The Boston Journal in 1891, and later at the New York Herald and Baltimore News.

From 1896 through 1897, Brown worked as a reporter for the Chicago Inter Ocean, leaving to serve as an editorial writer in New York, for the Commercial Advertiser until 1900. Afterwards, they published In Pawn to a Throne, in 1919, the seventh book that he had authored or co-authored.