by Scott Brown
Finally, I’d like to talk about the people without whom I would not exist, in this or any form: my extraordinary sister and brother, Holland and Robert, hearts like steam locomotives and minds to match. We share a soul that knows no distances.
To my wife, Katie, whose patience and love and strength and towering talent for life I somehow lucked into, in some cosmic lottery.
To Pat, for all the support, for opening a new town to us, and a new existence.
To my kids, Zoe and Harry. I hope they’ll read this someday. I hope it’ll make sense. Don’t let anyone tell you you are who you are. You’re more. You decide. And then you decide again. That’s okay.
To my parents, Robbie and Roger Brown, for their boundless love, for building me up from minute one with blood and treasure, for pushing back on the things that mattered, and for giving in on the things that mattered more. For letting me be who I wanted to be, even when that didn’t make a lot of sense, even when I was scribblingly inconsistent, even when I was short with you. At one point or another, I was short with everybody.
That’s a little joke.
Very little.
Thanks for sticking around anyway. The road goes ever on….
Author photo by Danielle Tait
SCOTT BROWN
(5′3″) is a writer of nonfiction, theater, and television. He was chief drama critic at New York magazine, and has written for Entertainment Weekly, Wired, GQ, and Time magazines, among others. He’s the co-creator of Gutenberg! The Musical! and a book writer on Beetlejuice: The Musical. In television, he wrote for HBO’s Sharp Objects, as well as the acclaimed drama Manhattan. He’s currently a writer and producer on Hulu’s Castle Rock.
Scott lives in western Massachusetts.
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