Fred Brown
Fred Brown, past president of the Knoxville Writers' Guild, is a feature writer for the Knoxville News-Sentinel and editor of Appalachian Life magazine.   He is one of the select journalists named to the Scripps Howard Writing Hall of Fame, and he is also a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Among his other writing awards are the Tennessee Press Association's Best Feature Writer Award and the Malcolm Law Trophy for Feature Writing.

Brown grew up in Cedartown, Georgia, and graduated from Presbyterian College. He worked on several papers in the Southeast, and in 1984 he left the Memphis Press-Scimitar to come to Knoxville as a writer for the News-Sentinel. He presently writes features, a "Southern Voices" column, a fly fishing column, and "Marking Time," a weekly feature that details the history behind outdoor historical markers.

With his wife, writer Jeanne McDonald, Brown  has co-authored two books, Serpent-Handlers: Three Families and Their Faith  (winner of the Harry Caudill Award for Journalism) and Growing Up Southern: How the South Shapes Its Writers, published by Emerald House/Blue Ridge Publishing in 1997.

Brown's latest publication with UT Press is Discovering October Roads: Fall Color and Geology in Tennessee, co-authored with geologist Harry Moore. The volume outlines various trips through East Tennessee for viewing fall colors, along with historical perspectives on the regions, photographs, and geological analyses of each particular area.  He has just completed another book on state historical markers for the University of Tennessee Press

He is an avid collector of jazz, a student of Civil War battles, and a dedicated fly fisherman.