Millen Brand

Millen Brand (1906 - 1980, New York, NY)

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Bestselling American writer and poet. Millen Brand's novels: Savage Sleep and The Outward Room were bestsellers in the 1940s. Millen fled Pennsylvania Dutch country early in his life, but returned to the topic late in life, writing the text to accompany George Tice's photographs for "Fields of Peace: A Pennsylvania German Album", and "Local Lives" (1975), a book of poems about the Pennsylvania Dutch. He also taught writing at New York University.

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He won an Oscar nomination for Writing (Screenplay) in 1948 for "THE SNAKE PIT" (w. Frank Partos), an adaptation of Mary Jane Ward's novel, "The Snake Pit" (1948).

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Link to the Oscar site:

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http://theoscarsite.com/whoswho3/brand_m.htm

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Active in the Civil Rights movement, Millen Brand was forced to testify before Senator McCarthy. He also authored "Peace March: Nagasaki to Hiroshima". Buried in Concord, MA, his gravestone is just a few steps from those of Emerson and Thoreau.

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