James Brown is the author of several novels, and the memoirs, The Los Angeles Diaries, This River, and Apology to the Young Addict (to-be-published March 2020). He is the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing and the Nelson Algren Award in Short Fiction. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and The New England Review.
Books in order of publication:
Going Fast (Border Mountain Press, 1977)
Hot Wire (Arbor House, 1985)
Final Performance (Sceptre, 1988)
The Second Story Theatre and Two Encores (Story Line Press, 1994)
Lucky Town (Harcourt, 1994)
The Los Angeles Diaries (HarperCollins, 2003)
This River (Counterpoint Books, 2011)
Apology to the Young Addict (Counterpoint Books, 2020)
Writing Your Way to Recovery: How Stories Can Save Our Lives (co-authored with Patrick O’Neil, 2021)
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