BROWN, Bob

Brown is another one of those early twentieth-century avant-garde writers whose reputations were lost in the insufficient assimilation of extreme modernism. (Whenever you hear anyone say that all avant-garde art has been accepted, point to individuals like Brown, among too many others.) After a peripatetic career as a stock-market speculator, a magazine publisher in South America, and the inventor of a proto-microfilm reader (according to Hugh Ford's Four Lives in Paris [1987]), Brown became both...