David S. Brown is a writer and the Horace E. Raffensperger professor of history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books, including The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams, Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Brown holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Toledo. His latest biography, The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson, was published by Scribner in 2022.