Brown, Allen (Mike) (1929 - 2011)

Genre: Non-Fiction

Allen D. "Mike" Brown was born in Belfast, ME, graduated from Crosby High School (1947), then joined the Marine Corps and served in the 1st Marine Division in Korea. Using the pen name "Cap'n Perc Sane", he wrote a letter to the editor of the Maine Coast Fisherman and began a 60-year career in journalism as a reporter, monthly columnist and editor of two local newspapers, The Republican Journal and the Camden Herald. He died at his home in Saturday Cove in 2011.

Selected Bibliography

  • Saturday Cove (as Cap'n Perc Sane) (1969)
  • The Great Lobster Chase: The Real Story of Maine Lobsters and the Men Who Catch Them (1985)
  • The Maine Lobster Book (1986)