Complex sentence: The son of a sawmill worker, and the grandson of a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Brown grew up in the Pacific Northwest and graduated from Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington, and from the University of Washington.
Split into simpler sentences: The son of a sawmill worker, and the grandson of a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, Brown grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He graduated from Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington, and from the University of Washington.