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| Brown, Charles Brockden |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  broun |
| DATES: | 1771–1810 |
| American writer and editor who is considered America's first professional novelist. Brown is best known for his Gothic romances, such as Wieland (1798), Ormund (1799), and Jane Talbot (1801).
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