TWA poets: Rosellen Brown

Born in 1939

It’s the birthday of novelist and poet Rosellen Brown, born in Philadelphia (1939). Her novels include Tender Mercies (1978), Before and After (1992), and Half a Heart (2000). Brown is proud of the fact she sustained a writing career while bringing up two daughters, and she still relies on some of the routines she developed when her kids were small. “I …