Kevin Brown (author), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kevin Brown (author)

Essayist, Biographer, Translator

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1930

Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Profession: translator, biographer, music critic, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Kevin Brown (born September 3, 1960) is a biographer, essayist and translator who has authored or contributed to three books. Kevin Brown has published brief lives of Romare Bearden and Malcolm X.
He was a contributing editor to The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference Since 1978, many of Brown's essays, articles and reviews on the visual arts, cinema, dance, literature, music and politics have appeared in Afterimage, the American Book Review, American Visions, the Chicago Review, the Kansas City Star, Kirkus Reviews, the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, New York Newsday, the Oakland Tribune, the Threepenny Review and the Washington Post Bookworld, among others. Brown's 2005 translation into Spanish of Virginia Woolf's little known essay "Reviewing" appeared in the Iowa University journal of literary translation eXchanges.
His profile of translator Gregory Rabassa was published in 2006 by the University of Delaware's Review of Latin American Studies.