Dale Brown, the founding director of the Buechner Institute at King College, is the author of numerous articles and the critical biography, The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings. Brown's extensive interviews with more than 30 American writers have appeared in his books Of Faith & Fiction and Conversations with American Writers: The Faith, The Doubt, and The In-Between.
A Rotary Scholar to Great Britain in the 1970's, Brown has also served as a minister, traveled the country in a singing group, taught in a secondary school on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, done a stint as a police chaplain in Houston, Texas, and worked in the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis, Missouri. After taking degrees at the University of Houston and the University of North Wales, Brown completed his PhD at the University of Missouri.
For twenty years, Brown was a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and for more than ten years was the director of the Festival of Faith & Writing there. A frequent speaker at academic conferences and churches, Brown continues to teach literature and journalism courses at King College, where he chairs the English department. He and his wife, Gayle, an art director at William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, moved to Bristol, Tennessee in 2007.
Brown's books may be purchased by following the links below:
