# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-n-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:34:18.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-n-brown"
name: "Charles N. Brown"
slug: "charles-n-brown"
description: "Charles Nikki Brown was an American publishing editor, the co-founder and editor of Locus, the long-running news and reviews magazine covering the genres of science fiction and fantasy literature. Brown was born on June 24, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended City College until 1956, when he joined the military at age 18; Brown served in the United States Navy for three years. Following his discharge from navy service, he went to work as a nuclear engineer but later on changed careers and entered the publishing field; Brown became a full-time science fiction editor with Locus in 1975."
tagline: "American science fiction editor (1937-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_N_Brown.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-06-24"
deathDate: "2009-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.99
  momentum:             11.11111111111111
  historical:           5.671490666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "تشارلز ن. براون"
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    title: "查爾斯·尼克·布朗"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_N._Brown"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чарльз Браун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump