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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]
Louis Bromfield was an American novelist and essayist. The son of a farmer, Bromfield studied journalism at Columbia University and was decorated for his service in the French army, which he joined at the outbreak of World War I. After the war he worked as a music critic in New York City for a few.
Feb 4, 2014 · Best known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, screenwriter, and Hollywood hobnobber, Louis Bromfield was also celebrated as a pioneer of sustainable agriculture -- a lesser-known part of his legacy that lives on today at his Ohio farm.
Louis Bromfield was an early American advocate of soil conservation through practices such as contour plowing. Here, on Malabar Farm in Ohio in the 1940s, he pilots a combine over part of his 600-acre demesne.
Louis Bromfield 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.
Louis Bromfield has 178 books on Goodreads with 14153 ratings. Louis Bromfield’s most popular book is Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady.
Jul 24, 2022 · Louis Bromfield — a middle-class Midwesterner who had worked as an ambulance driver during the First World War and had spent the 1920s living in a rented old rectory in Paris with his typewriter and his giant gramophone — was Gertrude Stein’s favorite American novelist and the Lost Generation’s favorite Ivy League dropout.
