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Nancy Marie Brown

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Nancy Marie Brown is the author of The Abacus and the Cross, The Far Traveler, and other nonfiction books. She has 30 years’ experience as a writer and editor. From 1981 to 2003, she wrote about science for an award-winning magazine published by Penn State University. She earned a master’s degree in comparative literature from Penn State, where she specialized in the Middle Ages. Freelance since 2003, she lives in the town of Lyndon, Vermont, with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.

Explaining her work, she writes: "I like extremes: Science and sagas. Science and faith. History and fantasy. The Dark Ages and modern times. Fire and ice. My books combine extremes. They ask, What have we overlooked? What have we forgotten? What knowledge mu...more



Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths has reached that delightful stage called “advance reader copies,” or ARCs—delightful for the writer because I get to see the final cover design, read my publisher’s description of the book, and (best of all) relish the first readers’ comments, or blurbs.
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Published on May 30, 2012 07:07
Average rating: 3.72 · 248 ratings · 97 reviews · 5 distinct works
The Far Traveler: Voyages o...
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A Good Horse Has No Color
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