512 Washington St SE
Olympia, WA 98501
USA
Timberland Reads Together author Daniel James Brown will speak on the main stage at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Tuesday, October 4 at 7 p.m.
Brown wrote the New York Times Best-seller, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He will read excerpts from the book, answer audience questions and discuss how this story came to be told. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.
Brown grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford before becoming a technical writer and editor. Now a full time nonfiction writer, Brown says “my primary interest … is in bringing compelling historical events to life as vividly and accurately as I can.”
Brown lives in the country outside of Seattle with his two daughters, and an assortment of cats, dogs, chickens, and honeybees. “When I am not writing,” he writes on his website, “I’m likely to be birding, gardening, fly fishing, reading American history, or chasing bears away from the bee hives.
