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The Buechner Institute Director
Dale Brown, the founding director of the Buechner Institute at King College, is the author of numerous articles and the recent critical biography, The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings. Brown’s extensive interviews with more than 30 American writers have appeared in his books Of Faith & Fiction and the just published Conversations with American Writers: The Faith, The Doubt, and The In-Between.
A Rotary Scholar to Great Britain in the 1970’s, Brown has also served as a minister, traveled the country in a singing group, taught in a secondary school on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, done a stint as a police chaplain in Houston, Texas, and worked in the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis, Missouri. After taking degrees at the University of Houston and the University of North Wales, Brown completed his PhD at the University of Missouri. For twenty years, Brown was a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and for more than ten years was the director of the Festival of Faith & Writing there. A frequent speaker at academic conferences and churches, Brown continues to teach literature courses at King College. He and his wife, Gayle, an art director at William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, moved to Bristol, Tennessee in 2007.
Brown's books may be purchased by following the links below. Proceeds from the book will go to The Buechner Institute.
Conversations With American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between
Of Fiction and Faith: Twelve American Writers Talk About Their Vision and Work
The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings |
