Carrie Brown is the author of the novels Rose's Garden , for which she received the Barnes and Noble Discover Award,.and Lamb in Love. She grew up in New England -- Greenwich, Connecticut, and the very small town of Williamsville, Vermont (near Brattleboro).
When she was a child, her father was transferred for business, first to England, where the family lived in a village outside Winchester, and then to Hong Kong. After graduating from Brown University (where she earned a BA with Honors in English), she moved to Maryland, where she worked for thirteen years for Patuxent Publishing Company (now owned by Times Mirror) which publishes local newspapers. Starting as a general assignment reporter, she worked as a writer and editor at a number of the papers in the chain, and eventully became Associate Editor of the company's flagship paper, The Columbia Flier.
Married to novelist John Gregory Brown, with whom she has three children, Carrie Brown moved with her family to Sweet Briar, Virginia, in 1994 and began writing fiction. She earned an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she held a Henry Hoyns teaching fellowship. She was awarded a Commonwealth of Virginia's Commission for the Arts Fellowship for fiction.