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.[1] 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.[2]
- ^ Conford, Philip (2001). The Origins of the Organic Movement. Floris Books. ISBN 978-0-86315-336-5.
- ^ Beeman, Randal S.; Pritchard, James A. (2001). A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1066-2.