Joe David Brown

A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Brown entered journalism at twenty as a police reporter for the Birmingham Post, soon becoming city editor of the Dothan Eagle and later writing for papers in Atlanta, Chattanooga and St. Louis before joining the New York Daily News in 1939. World War II interrupted his reporting career; he parachuted into Southern France with the 460th Parachute Field Artillery Ba… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources