Larry Brown (born July 9, 1951) is a U.S. novelist from Oxford, Mississippi. His first novel was Dirty Work (1989); another is Fay (2000).

External link: http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/brown_larry/

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Larry Brown (born September 14, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) has been a successful college and professional basketball coach for the last 31 years. He has won over 1,000 professional games in the ABA and the NBA and is the only coach in NBA history to lead seven different teams to the playoffs. He is 1,285-853 in his career and is the current head coach of the Detroit Pistons.

Brown, a 5-9 point guard, played at The University of North Carolina, where he also was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha, after playing his high school basketball in New York. A stellar player for the Tar Heels in the early 60's, Brown was considered too small to play in the NBA so he went to the NABL Akron Wingfoots, where he played for two years (1964-65). During that time Brown was selected to the 1964 US Olympic team while leading the Wingfoots to the 1964 AAU National Championship. After a brief stint as an assistant coach at North Carolina, Brown joined the upstart American Basketball Association, playing with the New Orleans Buccaneers (1967-68), Oakland Oaks (1968-69), Washington Caps (1969-70), Virginia Squires (1970-71) and Denver Nuggets (1971-72).

Brown won his first NBA Championship with the Detroit Pistons in 2004 against the Los Angeles Lakers. By doing so, Brown became the first man to coach a college basketball team to an NCAA Championship (coaching the University of Kansas to the NCAA title in 1988) and an NBA team to an NBA Championship.

He was chosen as the head coach for the USA men's basketball team ("Dream Team IV") at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

He coached at UCLA and won a national championship game.