Hello, my name is David. I am a New Orleans-based author whose nonfiction appears regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wine Enthusiast, and Scientific American, among many other places. A current sampling of essays, articles, and features I’ve written can be found on my blog, here. Meanwhile, if you are interested in building a writing career, or curious about the writing life, please subscribe to my Substack, The Firmament. (Even if you aren’t please subscribe.)

My latest book is titled THE MISSION, or: How a Disciple of Carl Sagan, an Ex-Motocross Racer, a Texas Tea Party Congressman, the World's Worst Typewriter Saleswoman, California Mountain People, and an Anonymous NASA Functionary Went to War with Mars, Survived an Insurgency at Saturn, Traded Blows with Washington, and Stole a Ride on an Alabama Moon Rocket to Send a Space Robot to Jupiter in Search of the Second Garden of Eden at the Bottom of an Alien Ocean Inside of an Ice World Called Europa (A True Story). It was published in 2021 by Custom House, an imprint of HarperCollins. It tells the true story of a group of scientists who studied Europa, Jupiter’s ocean moon, needed to know more, and spent twenty years convincing NASA to send a spaceship there. The details are right there in the subtitle. People seem to really like it. You can order a copy here.

My next book, titled THE OUTSIDE CATS, will be released by Mariner Books. It tells the story of a team of scientists who built a surreptitious, ad-hoc, international cooperative to explore Antarctica and study rapid sea-level rise. It is also a memoir of my two Antarctic expeditions with them.

You can reach me by email at davidwbrown@gmail.com.

Image Credit: Romney Caruso. (See also here for CC BY-SA 4.0 image.)