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George Alfred Brown
1876–1961
Best remembered today for the 1923 novel Harold the Klansman, this early-20th-century American writer also appears in book records connected with educational publishing and poetry. Very little biographical detail is firmly documented online, which gives his surviving work an unusual air of mystery.
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Harold the Klansman
by George Alfred Brown
About the author
George Alfred Brown was an American author born in 1876. The clearest published record tied to him is Harold the Klansman (Kansas City, Western Baptist Publishing, 1923), and library listings also connect his name with other works such as Ernest and Madeline: And Other Poems and volumes of School and Home Education.
Because reliable biographical sources on Brown are scarce, only a small outline can be stated with confidence. He seems to have been active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and modern catalog records consistently preserve his name through the books attributed to him.
His best-known surviving title is also the one readers are most likely to approach with caution today: Harold the Klansman is widely described in library and bookseller records as a pro-Klan novel. For that reason, Brown is less known as a broadly celebrated literary figure than as the author of a book that reflects a deeply troubling strain of its era's social and political history.