Harry Brown on AllMovie

American screenwriter, novelist and poet Harry Brown is best known for writing war stories. Before coming to film, he worked as a correspondent for Time and the New Yorker; he also published two volumes of poetry before serving in the Army during WW II. It was then that he began writing his stories. In 1946 his novel A Walk in the Sun was adapted into a film. Brown occasionally penned scripts for other movie genres, including westerns. In 1951, he won an Academy Award for his collaboration on a remake of A Place in the Sun.