"Brig" playwright Kenneth H. Brown dies at 85

The New York Times has this obituary by Alex Vadukul of Kenneth H. Brown, who died on February 5 in Queens. Mr. Brown, who had served in the U.S. Marine Corps, achieved early fame as author of "The Brig," a 1963 play based on his experiences as a two-time prisoner in Japan. Although he wrote other works, success was fleeting. "[B]y the time the smoke cleared, I was broke," he wrote in 1986. "The Brig" was made into a motion picture by Jonas Mekas in 1964.