Leah Marie Brown

Leah Marie Brown (Born 1968) is a historical novelist, award-winning blogger, and noted journalist. She is primarily known for her passionate defense of Marie Antoinette and her efforts to dispel the myths surrounding the queen. The articles she wrote for the now-defunct, Let Them Eat Cake, helped win that website multiple awards. Some of those articles now appear on Brown's blog, Titillating Tidbits about the Life and Times of Marie Antoinette. She also writes travel articles for various magazines and newspapers and her other blog On Life, Love and Accidental Adventures.
Education
Brown graduated from in Peoria, Arizona in 1987. After working for a few years, she enlisted in the Air Force and attended the Defense Information School as a radio and television broadcaster, serving during the Gulf War. She also attended Florida State University and the University of Maryland for a BA in Social Sciences, with an emphasis in History.
Career
Shortly after graduating from Peoria High School, Brown was hired as an editorial assistant at The Arizona Republic, the largest daily newspaper in Arizona. Her tenacity, ambition, and talent soon drew the attention of the editorial staff and she was assigned business and feature stories. Brown left The Arizona Republic to work for several smaller daily newspapers, including The Burlington Times in Burlington, North Carolina. Realizing she would need to obtain a college degree if she hoped to achieve her career goals, she enlisted in the United States Air Force as a Radio and Television Broadcaster, working as a drive-time radio jock and nighly television news anchor covering stories about the Gulf War. After separating from the military, Brown went on to work as a Director of Public Relations for a department within the City of Tacoma, Washington, a research assistant, freelance journalist. As a stringer for CBS News she covered the Haitian Riots in Panama. Brown has written six French Revolution set novels, including the award-winning Silence in the Mist. She was a member of IRE and is now a member of Romance Writers of America and Women Writing History.
Publications
Brown's articles have appeared in numerous publications including Seventeen, Writer's Digest, Writers Journal, Parents, Parenting, Off Duty, True Confessions, Bluegrass Dog, Illuminations, The Jasmine, and Travel Girl.
In 1998, noted author Sherry Conway Appel, wife of novelist Allen Appel, asked Brown to be a contributor to her book, On the Birth of Your Child which was published by St. Martin's Press in 1999.
In 2003, Professor Dena Goodman referenced Brown's articles and website, Let Them Eat Cake, in her book, Writings on the Body of a Queen.
In January 2011, Brown's moody novella, After the Gloaming, appeared in The Mammoth Book of Scottish Romance. The publisher, Running Press, described the anthology as a collection of twenty-three Scottish-set stories written by today's hottest romance authors.
Brown's award-winning French Revolution-set novel, Silence in the Mist, is based on the lives of real counter-revolutionary soldiers and spies, including Renée Bordereau and Francoise Despres, as well as the Revolutionary hero, General Louis Lazare Hoche. She blogs at On Life, Love and Accidental Adventures and Titillating Tidbits about the Life and Times of Marie Antoinette.
Personal Life and Family
Brown is the granddaughter of Lawrence A. Cumiskey, a decorated Irish-American soldier who stormed the beach at Normandy during World War II, and Marthe Laura Baratte-Cadet, a French-born model. Brown's French ancestors came from the Dordogne and Lower Normandy regions. In 2001, shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, City, Brown organized the Message of Hope Book Drive. With the help of many published romance, mystery, and science fiction authors, Brown was able to gather over 12,000 autographed mass-market paperback novels and deliver them to soldiers, sailors, and airmen deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Her efforts earned her appreciation awards from both the United States Navy and the United States Air Force.

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