David Scott Brown (born 29 September, 1966) is a Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, United States. He is the author of several books, including biographies of Richard Hofstadter and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Education and career

Brown was born on 29 September, 1966 in Troy, Ohio. He graduated from

Wright State University Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio. Originally opened in 1964 as a branch campus of Miami University and Ohio State University, it became an independent institution in 1967 and was named in honor of aviation ...

in 1990 and earned a master's degree from the University of Akron in 1992. He completed his Ph.D. in 1995 at the University of Toledo. Brown joined Elizabethtown College in 1997, after previously teaching at the University of Toledo, Washtenaw Community College, and Saginaw Valley State University. He was named Raffensperger Professor in 2012.

Books

In 2006, he published ''Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography''. The book explores the life and times of Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter. His 2009 book ''Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing'' (also from the University of Chicago Press) is a study of Midwestern historians and their influence on the American historical profession. He is also the author of ''Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion'' (ABC-Clio, 1998); ''Moderates: The Vital Center of American Politics, from the Founding to Today'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2016); and ''Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald'' (Harvard University Press, 2017).

References

21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Wright State University alumni University of Akron alumni University of Toledo alumni University of Toledo faculty Saginaw Valley State University faculty Elizabethtown College faculty Living people 1966 births American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub