The Returned
A graduate of Cornell University, Brown University Medical School, and George Washington University Hospital residency program, Laurence B. Brown is an ophthalmic surgeon, a retired Air Force officer, and the medical director and chief ophthalmologist of a major eye center in the Middle East. For the past two decades, he has divided his time between America, England, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. He has authored four books of comparative religion as well as the critically acclaimed best-selling novel, The Eighth Scroll. He currently lives in Saudi Arabia with his wife, their one daughter, and an ever-changing assortment of hamsters and parrots.