Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown is the award-winning author of Dancing Through Fields of Color: The Story of Helen Frankenthaler (Abrams) and Like a Diamond in the Sky: Jane Taylor’s Beloved Poem of Wonder and the Stars (Bloomsbury). Other recent books are The Right to Play: Jane Addams' Playgrounds (Albert Whitman), which was released August 7, 2025, and The World Entire: A True Story of an Extraordinary World War II Rescue (Chronicle Books), which was released September 2, 2025. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and lives outside of Chicago with her family.