S. Brent Morris

 ( American Non-fiction Writers ) 

S. Brent Morris is an American author who writes on Freemasonry. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry, Penguin Books He is a Master Mason, a 33° Scottish Rite Mason, and retired in 2021 as the editor-in-chief of The Scottish Rite Journal, a publication of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction.

Morris has served as Executive of the Cryptologic Mathematician Program at the National Security Agency and as U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the area of computer security. He has taught mathematics, computer science, and cryptanalysis at Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Cryptologic School. His interests include computer interconnection networks, the mathematics of card shuffling, and recreational mathematics.

Morris has been nominated by The Mathematical Association of America to be one of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty Speakers who will speak about his work and career to middle and high school students in October 2010. retrieved 2010-16-05

As a Mason, he was the first American to be elected as the Worshipful Master of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, Press Release from Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry the oldest Masonic Research Lodge in the world and under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England, serving in that capacity from November 2007 to November 2008. He is a recipient of the Grand Cross. S. Brent Morris' CV He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Duke University, advised by Leonard Carlitz.

• Magic Tricks, Card Shuffling and Dynamic Computer Memories (Mathematical Association of America, 1998)Reviews of Magic Tricks, Card Shuffling and Dynamic Computer Memories:
• Steve Abbott, The Mathematical Gazette, ,
• H. Don Allen, The Mathematics Teacher,
• James Lawrence, "A Book for the Mathemagician", Math Horizons,
• Miroslav Lovrić,

• Freemasonry on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Essays Concerning the Craft in the British Isles, Europe, United States and Mexico (edited with R. William Weisberger and Wallace McLeod, Columbia University Press, 2002)Reviews of Freemasonry on Both Sides of the Atlantic:
• Bruce Chabot, Journal of Social History,
• Jeanne Halgren Kilde, The Journal of American History, ,
• Michael Bradley McCoy, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies,
• Andrew Prescott, The Slavonic and East European Review,
• Mark C. Wallace, The Scottish Historical Review,

• American Masonic Periodicals, 1811–2001: A Bibliography of the Library of the Supreme Council (edited with Larissa P. Watkins, Oak Knoll Press, 2004)Review of American Masonic Periodicals:

• International Masonic Periodicals, 1738–2005 (edited with Larissa P. Watkins, Oak Knoll Press, 2006)Review of International Masonic Periodicals:

• Why Thirty-Three? Searching for Masonic Origins (Westphalia Press, 2019)Review of Why Thirty-Three?: