James Brown

James Brown is the author of the addition memoirs, Apology to the Young Addict, The Los Angeles Diaries, and This River. He and Patrick O'Neil co-authored Writing Your Way to Recovery: How Stories Can Save Our Lives, a creative writing handbook combining intimate personal stories of hope and renewal with the art of memoir writing. Brown has also written several novels and is the recipient of the Nelson Algren Award in Short Fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature. His work has appeared in GQ, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and many other publications. He can be contacted through his website at jamesbrownauthor.com