Nic Brown (drummer)

Nic Brown is an American rock drummer and author from North Carolina. He began his career drumming with his high school rock band, Athenaeum, who went on to sign with Atlantic Records and release a hit single, "What I Didn't Know". Brown left Athenaeum in 2001 and played in Longwave and Skeleton Key in the decade of the 2000s while pursuing a career change to become a professional writer. He has released three novels and a memoir since 2009. As of 2025 he is an associate professor of English at Clemson University.