About Margaret Lynn Brown
Margaret Lynn Brown is an author, researcher, writer, and professor of American history at Brevard College in western North Carolina. Her history of the Great Smoky Mountains, The Wild East, is popular in the national park’s visitor centers. More recently, she has written historical fiction, reviews, and essays.
Essays
A Sense of Wonder in Yellowstone 11/5/18
“I never go to national parks,” a young woman dressed in tight capris and climbing shoes said to her bearded friend. It was one of those overheard conversations at an airport. “They aren’t wild enough for me,” she explained and went on to associate our 58 national parks with bumper-to-bumper traffic, long lines for the bathroom, and goggle-eyed tourists with cameras. Truth is, I shared some of her fears in 2017, when my family and ...
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Reviews
Everything I Never Told You
Review of Everything I Never Told You. Celeste Ng. New York: Penguin, 2015 (297 pages) The first sentence of this novel is reminiscent of a murder mystery: “Lydia is dead.” However, the second sentence hints that the plot will revolve around something other than whodunit: “But they didn’t know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.” They, in this case, refer ...
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