Cassie Brown

Cassie Eileen Brown (1919–1986) was a Newfoundland and Labrador journalist, author, publisher and editor.[1] Brown is most distinguished for her books Death on the Ice which was featured in Reader's Digest and the Wreck of the Florizel. An unabridged audiobook edition of Death on the Ice was narrated for Rattling Books by beloved Newfoundland singer/songwriter Ron Hynes.

Brown was elected to the executive of the Newfoundland Drama Society and made an honorary life member. She was also President of Karwood Limited, a real estate development company from Mt. Pearl.

Early life and education

Brown was born in Rose Blanche, Newfoundland, to Wilson and Caroline (Hillier) Horwood. Her early education took place in Rose Blanche, St. Georges, and, later, in St. John's after her family moved there when she was eleven years old. In St. John's, Brown's father worked as a freelance broadcaster and her mother as a teacher and entrepreneur. The tourist resort, "Karwood", established by Caroline Horwood on the outskirts of St. John's, would eventually become Brown's writing retreat.[2]

Career

Brown started writing when she was a teenager, beginning with newspaper articles. Later, her work expanded to include freelance script-writing and educational broadcasts for CBC.[1] She gained recognition in the 1950s when her short stories and radio dramatizations won five Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards.[2] She was a reporter for The Daily News of St. John's from 1959 to 1966 and publisher of the magazine Newfoundland Women from 1961 to 1964.[2]

Bibliography
  • Death On The Ice (1974) ISBN 0-385-25179-3, about the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, Introduction by Harold Horwood[3]
  • A Winter's Tale - The Wreck of the Florizel (1976) ISBN 0-9698767-4-2
  • Standing Into Danger (1979) ISBN 1-894463-02-1
  • The Caribou Disaster and other Short Stories (1996) ISBN 0-9698767-3-4[4]
  • Writing the Sea (2005) ISBN 1-894463-74-9

See also

References
  1. "Cassie Eileen Brown (1919-1986)". www.heritage.nf.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  2. Lisa., De Leon (1985). Writers of Newfoundland and Labrador : twentieth century. St. John's: Jesperson Press. ISBN 092050258X. OCLC 13441769.
  3. Sullivan, Joan (June 16, 2015). "The seminal account of a century-old Newfoundland tragedy". Atlantic Books Today. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  4. The Caribou Disaster and Other Short Stories (Book). Oshawa Public Libraries / BiblioCommons. 1996. ISBN 9780969876731. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
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