Brown, Devin 1954-

PERSONAL:

Born October 11, 1954, in Harvey, IL; son of John (an electrician) and Veronica (a nurse) Brown; married September 1, 1984; wife's name Sharon (a college professor). Education: Culver Stockton College, B.A., 1975; University of Florida, M.F.A., 1979; University of South Carolina, Ph.D., 1994. Hobbies and other interests: Hiking in England, playing guitar.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Lexington, KY. Office—Asbury College, 1 Macklem Dr., Wilmore, KY 40390. E-mail—devin.brown@asbury.edu.

CAREER:

Asbury College, Wilmore, KY, professor of English, 1996—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Kentucky Bluegrass Award, citation among Notable Social Studies Books of the Year, Children's Book Council, and inclusion among Best Books of the Year, Bank Street College, all 2006, for Not Exactly Normal.

WRITINGS:

Inside Narnia (criticism), Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI), 2005.

Not Exactly Normal (adolescent fiction), Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, MI), 2005.

SIDELIGHTS:

Devin Brown told CA: "When Inside Narnia came out, I hoped that it would sell enough copies so that my publisher would offer me a contract to write a second Narnia book. Now, after six printings of the first one, I am busy trying to write the second. I wrote the first thirty pages of Not Exactly Normal as part of my master's thesis at the University of Florida and then put it away for twenty years. I always wanted to get back to it and expand it into a novel, and I did it. Beginning writers should take heart, persevere, and keep writing."