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Fredric Brown
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American novelist, short story author (1906–1972)
OverviewAI-generated
Fredric Brown was a male author from the United States whose professional career began in 1938. He was born on October 29, 1906, and died on March 11, 1972. Open Library records indicate that he is associated with 161 works, while Crossref lists five of his publications.
The author is referenced by 231 other encyclopedia articles. A quote attributed to him states, "The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen." MusicBrainz data identifies him as a person from the United States, with genres including blues, christmas music, disco, film soundtrack, and funk.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 29 October 1906
- Died
- 11 March 1972
- Works
- 161
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1933-05-03
- Active to
- 2006-12-25
Discography
- James Browns Presents His Band & Five Other Great Artists1961
- Prisoner of Love1963
- Grits & Soul1964
- Showtime1964
- Sings Out of Sight1965
- James Brown Plays James Brown: Yesterday and Today1965
- Handful of Soul1966
- James Brown Plays New Breed1966
- James Brown Sings Raw Soul1967
- James Brown Plays the Real Thing1967
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 64
- Total plays
- 178
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fredric+Brown">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,422x
- Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
· 2007 · cited 24,986x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,885x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “She was sleeping. He nudged her gently and whispered a suggestion. Her eyes opened wide and startled. "No, no, a dozen times no!""Only a doezen times?" he asked, and then leered. "My deer," he whispered, "think of the fawn you'll have!"”
- “He had been cheated out of his compensation, on a technicality, by the corrupt officialdom of the spaceways. He’d turned criminal then, and had been as ruthless to society as it had been to him.”
- “He thought, “Anyway, do not judge the human race by my opinion of it. I am a criminal, every hand against me and my hand against every man—especially the metal hand that is my best weapon. Men have treated me badly; I have repaid them in kind. But do not judge them by what I think of them. Perhaps I am more warped than they.””
- “The face of danger is brightest when turned so its features cannot be seen.”
- “Yes, it was swell to sleep when you were looking forward to something. Time flies by and you don’t even hear the rustle of its wings.”
- ““One may think,” said the professor, “of an absolute as a mode of being—”Yeah, thought Shorty McCabe, one may think of anything as anything else, and what does it get you but a headache.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1906-10-29 ) October 29, 1906, Cincinnati , Ohio , U.S.
- Died
- March 11, 1972 (1972-03-11) (aged 65), Tucson , Arizona , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist, short story author
- Genre
- Mystery , science fiction , fantasy , horror
- Years active
- 1936–1965
- Notable works
- The Fabulous Clipjoint " Arena "
via Wikipedia infobox
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Brown's "Honeymoon in Hell" was the cover story in the second issue of Galaxy Science Fiction in 1950. Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He is known for his use of humor and for his mastery of the "short short" form—stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. Humor and a postmodern outlook carried over into his novels as well. One of his stories, "Arena", was adapted into a 1967 episode of the American television series Star Trek.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fredric Brown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.