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David W. Brown

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in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, The United States

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David W. Brown is a freelance writer whose nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and Smithsonian. His other publishers include The New Yorker, Vox, and Foreign Policy. He is an Antarctic expeditioner, an endurance runner, a former Army paratrooper, and a veteran of Afghanistan. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University and holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. The Mission is his fourth book. Brown lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...more

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	The Mission 3.80 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2021 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army by Marc Ambinder, D.B. Grady, David W. Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry by Marc Ambinder, D.B. Grady, David W. Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Finding Life on Mars

I’m late on sharing this one, but for The New Yorker, I describe a breakthrough in the search for Martian life—and how the Trump administration is killing a NASA missio...

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