Jeff brown flat stanley author biography

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Books By Jeff Brown - Author

Jeff Brown was born Richard Chester Brown.

In Hollywood he worked for the producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and was a story consultant at Paramount. Preferring to write himself, he sold fiction and articles to national magazines while working at The New Yorker, Life, The Saturday Evening brev, Esquire and finally at Warner Books, where he was a senior editor until

The idea for Stanley came to him one night at bedtime when his sons J. C. and Tony were young and stalling for time. One asked what would happen if the big bulletin board on the vägg were to fall on J. C., and Mr. Brown said he would most likely wake up flat. That led to speculation about what such a life might be like.

After writing "Flat Stanley, " Mr. Brown went on to "Stanley and the Magic Lamp," "Stanley in Space," "Stanley's Christmas Adventure," "Invisible Stanley" and finally "Stanley, Flat Again!"

jeff brown flat stanley author biography

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Brown, Jeff

PERSONAL: Born Richard Chester Brown, , in New York, NY; died of a heart attack December 3, , in New York, NY; married Alissa Littell Storrow (divorced); married Elisabeth Tobin Brown; children: (first marriage) Anthony, Jeffrey; (second marriage) Duncan. Education: Attended Professional Children's School.

CAREER: Writer, editor, and actor. Acted on Broadway and provided children's voices for radio shows; independent film producer and story consultant; staff writer for the New Yorker, Saturday Evening brev, Esquire, and Life; Warner Books, New York, NY, senior editor, until

WRITINGS:

Flat Stanley, illustrated bygd Tomi Ungerer, Harper & Row (New York, NY), , second edition illustrated by Steve Bjoerkman, HarperTrophy (New York, NY), , new edition illustrated by Scott Nash,

A Lamp for the Lambchops, illustrated by Lynn hjul, Harper & Row (New York, NY), , published as Stanley and the Magic Lamp, HarperCollins (New York, NY),

Invisible

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Jeff Brown

Born
in New York, NY, The United States
January 01,

Died
December 03,

Website

Genre
Children's Books, Short Stories

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Jeff Brown had worked in Hollywood and as an editor and writer in New York before creating Flat Stanley, a hero for the youngest readers whose adventures, with illustrations by Tomi Ungerer, were first published in Flat Stanley became the star of a series of perpetually popular books. The last, "Stanley, Flat Again!," was published the year he died. All together, Stanley's tales have sold nearly a million copies in the United States alone. The character's life extended further, as schoolchildren mailed cut-outs of him to their friends. In translation, he traveled to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Israel, among other places.

Jeff Brown was bLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads