Literature
- Alice Brown (writer) (1856–1948), American novelist
- Bill Brown (critical theory), American author and professor of English at the University of Chicago
- Charles Brockden Brown, American novelist
- Dale Brown (born 1956), American novelist
- Dan Brown, American novelist; author of The Da Vinci Code
- Dee Brown (writer), American novelist and historian
- Eric Brown (writer), science fiction author
- Fredric Brown, science fiction and mystery author
- George Douglas Brown (1869–1902), Scottish novelist
- George Mackay Brown (1921–1996), Scottish poet, author, and dramatist
- Harry Brown (writer) (1917–1986), American screenwriter and novelist
- Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012), author, publisher, and businesswoman
- J. B. Selkirk, James Brown of Selkirk, Scottish poet and essayist
- James Cooke Brown (1921–2000), sociologist
- John Brown (essayist) (1715–1766), English divine and author
- John Brown (fugitive slave) (c. 1810-1876), writer of Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown
- Norman O. Brown (1913–2002), American literary scholar
- Rita Mae Brown (born 1944), American writer and social activist
- Rosel George Brown (1926–1967), American science fiction author
- Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), Manx poet, scholar, and divine
- Tina Brown (born 1953), English journalist and author, biographer of Princess Diana
- Tom Brown (naturalist) (born 1950), an American outdoorsman and nature writer
- Tom Brown (satirist) (c. 1663-1704), English translator and satirist
- William Wells Brown (1814–1884), African American writer and abolitionist
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