Arthur L. (Arthur Lewis) Brown

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1854, Arthur Lewis Brown built his main career in the law rather than in literature. Reliable biographical sources identify him as a lawyer who later served as a United States district judge for the District of Rhode Island, a post he held after his appointment by President Grover Cleveland.

As an author, Brown appears to have left only a small published footprint. Project Gutenberg lists The Cinnamon Heart: A Mediæval Candy Scrape in 3 Acts, written with Howard Hoppin, and that light theatrical work is the title most closely associated with him in modern public-domain catalogs.

That mix of public service and occasional literary work gives Brown an unusual place in an audiobook library: not a full-time novelist, but a historical figure whose surviving writing offers a glimpse of humor and stagecraft from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.