Wenzell Brown

Born in Portland, Maine, Wenzell Brown was educated at Rollins College and later earned a master's degree from Columbia University. He also studied at King's College in London, and his early career took him far from New England.

Brown taught in Puerto Rico and at Lingnan University in Canton, China. He was in Hong Kong when the city fell to Japan during World War II and spent time in an internment camp for foreigners, an experience that informed his 1943 book Hong Kong Aftermath.

He wrote both fiction and nonfiction, including crime and social-history titles such as Dark Drums, Dynamite on Our Doorstep: Puerto Rican Paradox, and Women Who Died in the Chair, an Edgar Award winner. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed during this search, so none is included here.