Harry Brown. Writer: A Place in the Sun. Harry Brown was born on 30 April 1917 in Portland, Maine, USA. He was a writer, known for A Place in the Sun (1951), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Ocean's Eleven (1960). He was married to Marguerite Lamkin and June. He died on 2 November 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.