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Louis Bromfield

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American author and conservationist (1896-1956)

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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.

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1952Audubon Medal
1927Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Croix de guerre 1914-1918

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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. 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.

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United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
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Lived 1896 to 1956 · aged 59
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24 languages

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