Michael Brown [US2]

Real name: Marion Martin Brown, II
Born: December 14, 1920
Died: June 11, 2014
Country: United States
IPI: 00004352134 2 works
4352134 1 work
00063084784 4 works
Affiliation: ASCAP
Comments: Cabaret performer, songwriter, writer, director and producer of "industrial musicals", that is musicals produced by corporations for the benefit of boosting employee morale.
Brown and his wife became friends of Harper Lee through Truman Capote, and for Christmas, 1956, they gave Lee a substantial sum of money so that she could devote herself to writing. The resulting work was the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird".