David Scott Brown (born 29 September, 1966) is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, United States.[1][2] He is the author of several books, including biographies of Richard Hofstadter and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Education and career edit

Brown was born on 29 September, 1966 in Troy, Ohio.[3] He graduated from Wright State University in 1990 and earned a master's degree from the University of Akron in 1992. He completed his Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of Toledo.[1][3]

Brown joined Elizabethtown College in 1997, after previously teaching at the University of Toledo, Washtenaw Community College, and Saginaw Valley State University. He was named Raffensperger Professor in 2012.[1]

Books edit

In 2006, he published Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. The book explores the life and times of Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter.[4]

His 2009 book Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing (also from the University of Chicago Press) is a study of Midwestern historians and their influence on the American historical profession.[5]

He is also the author of Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion (ABC-Clio, 1998);[3] Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today (University of North Carolina Press, 2016);[6] Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Harvard University Press, 2017);[7] and The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (Scribner, 2020).

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Elizabethtown College announces appointment of David S. Brown to Raffensperger Professor of History, Elizabethtown College, August 31, 2012 – via readMedia
  2. ^ History faculty, Elizabethtown College, retrieved 2019-07-14
  3. ^ a b c "Brown, David S. 1966–", Gale Contemporary Authors, retrieved 2019-07-14
  4. ^ Reviews of Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography:
  5. ^ Reviews of Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing:
  6. ^ Reviews of Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics:
  7. ^ Reviews of Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald: