Lee Brown is a former trade union organizer. Before moving to New York City from Binghamton, N.Y., he was the founding president of local #994 of the International Chemical Workers Union. In NYC he worked with the ILGWU, organizing shops in New York's garment center. As a community organizer he was active in housing issues and in the anti-apartheid movement. Before taking up writing fiction, Lee led a rock band called "Patterns of Grace." If he were forced to pick three favorite current writers, they would be Mosley, Mieville and Modiano. He loves watching the NBA. Lee has two wonderful daughters and his first grandson, who he hopes, in his future, will continue the struggle for the rights of workers everywhere.
