Sharon Brown (born 1946) is a Canadian writer living in

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. She was born in

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and lived with her family on Air Force bases in Canada, France and England. In 1993, she published ''Some Become Flowers'' describing the experience of caring for her dying mother at her home in

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; the book received the

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. Brown and her family later moved to Roberts Creek. In 1997, she published a novel ''God is a Gun''. Brown married author Andreas Schroeder; the couple have two daughters.

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* 1946 births Living people 20th-century Canadian memoirists Canadian women memoirists 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian women novelists {{Canada-novelist-stub