William Cowper Brann it is a profile of Brann with a bullet hole in it. In the early 1890s, Brann, who had only three years of formal education, owned and published an Austin, Texas newspaper. He eventually sold the Austin "Iconoclast" to William Sydney Porter, better known as O. Henry. He repurchased it from Porter to operate it out of Waco, Texas until the time of his assassination. Following the assassination, Brann's wife moved the publication to Chicago, but still covered Texas issues. William Cowper Brann William Cowper Brann (January 4, 1855 – April 1, 1898) was an American journalist known as Brann
William F. Brown (writer) William F. Brown (writer) William Ferdinand Brown (born April 16, 1928 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American playwright best known for writing the book of the musical, "The Wiz" (1974), an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. His other works include "The Girl in the Freudian Slip" (1967) based on his 1959 novel, which played on Broadway for three days in May after a tour; "How to Steal an Election" (1968),