In the mid-1950s, I was a high schooler living in a big old house in Providence, Rhode Island. My father, Harcourt Brown, a professor of French at Brown University, had a study that overflowed with books. And my adjacent bedroom was in the floodway. So he and my mother, Dorothy Stacey Brown, created an attic suite for me by blending two adjoining rooms into…
Jennifer S. H. Brown
Jennifer S. H. Brown is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Winnipeg. She lives in Denver.