Remembrance of Things Past

ROBERT H. Brown, who hails from southeastern Liberia, proved an excellent student at

Maryland College of Our Lady of Fatima (High School Department) and received a scholarship from the Holy Cross Fathers to study at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, where he earned a B.A. in English. He worked as a Research Officer at the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism in Monrovia before entering Howard University where he was awarded an M.A. He has also earned an M.A. in Language and Literature: English for Speakers of Other Languages from the University of London, and a Ph.D. in Language and Linguistics from the University of Essex. He attended the International Vacation Course in English Language and Linguistics held at the Cambridge Centre for Languages, Sawston Hall, and at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge during the summer of 1984. Dr. Brown taught English, Religion and Reading at St. Hugh’s Roman Catholic School in Huntington Station, Long Island, New York. He also taught as an assistant professor of English in the University of Liberia for several years. He has published fiction in fourteen volumes of Short Story International in New York. His articles and fiction have also appeared in African Arts and the Liberian StudiesJournal in the United States. The BBC World Service has also broadcast his work. Dr. Brown’s first collection of short stories, After Long Silence and Other Liberian Stories, was published in New York in 1979. His novel, To Seek a Newer World, was published by Author House in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2008.