Cassie Eileen Brown (January 10, 1919 – December 30, 1986) was a
Newfoundland and Labrador
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journalist, author, publisher and editor.
Brown is most distinguished for her books ''Death on the Ice'', which was featured in ''
Reader's Digest
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'', and ''The Wreck of the
Florizel
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''.
Early life and education
Brown was born in
Rose Blanche,
Newfoundland
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, to Wilson and Caroline (Hillier) Horwood. Her early education took place in Rose Blanche, St. Georges, and, later, in St. John's after her family moved there when she was eleven years old. In St. John's, Brown's father worked as a freelance broadcaster and her mother as a teacher and entrepreneur. The tourist resort, "Karwood", established by Caroline Horwood on the outskirts of St. John's, would eventually become Brown's writing retreat.
Career
Brown started writing when she was a teenager, beginning with newspaper articles. Later, her work expanded to include freelance script-writing and educational broadcasts for
CBC.
She gained recognition in the 1950s when her short stories and radio dramatizations won five Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards.
She was a reporter for ''
The Daily News'' of St. John's from 1959 to 1966 and publisher of the magazine ''
Newfoundland Women'' from 1961 to 1964.
Brown was elected to the executive of the
Newfoundland Drama Society and made an honorary life member. She was also President of Karwood Limited, a
real estate development
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company from
Mt. Pearl.
Bibliography
*''Death on the Ice: The Great
Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914'' (1974) , foreword by
Harold Horwood
Harold Andrew Horwood, CM (November 2, 1923 – April 16, 2006) was a Newfoundland and Labrador novelist, non-fiction writer and politician. He was a Member of the Order of Canada.
Early life
The son of Andrew Horwood and Vina Maidment, Horw ...
*''A Winter's Tale: The Wreck of the
Florizel
Florizel (1768–1791) was a Kingdom of Great Britain, British Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a Bay (horse), bay son of Herod (horse), Herod foaled in 1768. As a sire he produced 175 winners who won a total of 75,901 pounds. Offspring include ...
'' (1976)
*''Standing Into Danger'' (1979)
*''The
Caribou Disaster and Other Short Stories'' (1996)
*''Writing the Sea'' (2005)
Adaptations
In 2011, an unabridged audiobook edition of ''Death on the Ice'' was narrated for Rattling Books by Newfoundland singer/songwriter
Ron Hynes
Ron Hynes (December 7, 1950 – November 19, 2015) was a folk singer-songwriter from Newfoundland and Labrador. He was especially known for his composition "Sonny's Dream", which has been recorded worldwide by many artists and was named the 41st ...
.
See also
*
List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
*
List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Newfoundla ...
References
External links
Flanker Press bio''The Unsinkable Cassie Brown'' - Atlantic Insight Magazine - September 1980
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1919 births
1986 deaths
20th-century Canadian novelists
Canadian women novelists
20th-century Canadian women writers
Writers from Newfoundland and Labrador