Fred Brown was a working journalist for more than forty-five years. He reported on a wide variety of assignments that took him to endzones as a sportswriter, to editing a small-town daily in Arkansas, to war zones as an embedded reporter on general assignment and finally as a senior writer penning regional history and features. Brown is a member of the Scripps Howard Hall of Fame, recipient of the Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors Malcolm Law Trophy for Feature Writing, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Michigan (1983-84) and was named to the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame for excellence in journalism in 2008.
