Brock Brower
| Brock Brower | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Brock Hendrickson Brower November 21, 1931 Plainfield, New Jersey |
| Died | April 16, 2014 (aged 82) Santa Barbara, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | journalist, author |
| Years active | 1959–2006 |
| Known for | Esquire magazine profiles |
| Notable work | The Late Great Creature (1972) |
Brock Brower (November 21, 1931 – April 16, 2014) was an American novelist, magazine journalist and TV writer for various magazines including Esquire, Life, Harper’s Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine.
The son of Charles H. Brower, Brock Hendrickson Brower was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and raised in Westfield, New Jersey. In 1953, he graduated from Dartmouth College, where he served as managing editor for The Dartmouth. He then attended Harvard Law School but left to study English literature for his MA as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University's Merton College.
From 1956 to 1958, Brower served two years in the U.S. Army in Intelligence at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
In 1959, he joined Esquire, for which he wrote profiles of Alger Hiss, Norman Mailer, and Mary McCarthy.
He also wrote profiles of vice presidents Spiro T. Agnew and Walter F. Mondale. He profiled presidential candidates including Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, George W. Romney, and Eugene McCarthy. He was writing about Ted Kennedy just before the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969.
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