Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield | |
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Bromfield photographed in 1933 by Carl Van Vechten | |
| Born | December 27, 1896 Mansfield, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | March 18, 1956 (aged 59) Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Cornell University Columbia University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, conservationist |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1927) |
Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.