David W. Brown is the author THE MISSION (Custom House, 2021), and the forthcoming memoir THE OUTSIDE CATS (Mariner Books). He is a New Orleans-based freelance writer whose nonfiction appears regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Scientific American.

Brown is a two-time Antarctic expeditioner, an endurance runner, a former Army paratrooper, and a veteran of Afghanistan. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University and holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. He is represented by Stacia Decker of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.