Dianne Carroll Burdick
Dale Brown
Dale Brown was a Professor of English at Calvin College for twenty years (1987 - 2007). During that time, he helped envision the Festival of Faith & Writing and spent over a decade as its director.
Brown moved to Bristol, Tennessee in 2007, where he taught literature and journalism courses and chaired the English department at King University. He also served as founding director of the university's Buechner Institute.
Over his lifetime, Brown wrote numerous articles and several books, including Of Fiction and Faith (1997), The Book of Buechner: A Journey Through His Writings (2007), and Conversations with American Writers: The Doubt, the Faith, the In-Between (2008).