Mike Brown was born in Montgomery, Alabama nine
months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. His mother, Dorothy S. Brown
had watched the Japanese planes fly over her home when it happened.
His parents divorced sometime after his sister, Lani, was born. The
family moved to various places while his mother worked towards
obtaining a Ph.D. in English.
Mike got to be too much to handle for his mother when he was sixteen. She sent him to Arkansas where her father had
a horse farm. Mike set up his room in an old turkey brooder house and his facilities consisted of an outhouse.
In Arkansas the farm kids didn’t master the written language very well. Most of them paid Mike to write their senior
theme papers. The teacher thought he had written at least five of them and she asked him point blank how many had he had written. He told her twenty-eight.
Arkansas in the early sixties was no place for a high school graduate to make a decent living so Mike joined the Army.
He served from 1960-1964 in the 82nd Airborne and the 101st Airborne divisions. His experiences in the service taught him the reality of being a soldier and gave him an understanding of how military operations work which cannot be found by just reading a book on the subject.
In 1967 Mike married Lani Maisterra. Together they have had nine children and now six grandchildren.
Mike has studied the Bible for thirty-two years using various translations and works by Martin Luther, John Milton, and others. Long ago he came to the conclusion that God’s Laws found in Deuteronomy and Leviticus were based on scientific reasons and not just to spoil man’s fun while here on earth.
Mike contributes articles on the courts and prisons to the Las Vegas Tribune on a regular basis.
Mike has written quite a few
articles and books in the last twenty-six years. Here is a partial
list of them:
