Louis Bromfield
American author and conservationist (1896-1956) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 59
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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Tyrone Power Louis wrote Brigham Young (1940)
Jane Darwell Also in The Rains Came and Brigham Young
Georg Wilhelm Pabst Directed A Modern Hero (1934)
Tod Browning Directed Dracula (1931)
Clarence Brown Directed The Rains Came (1939)
Jean Negulesco Directed The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Marjorie Rambeau Also in A Modern Hero and The Rains Came
Karl Freund Directed Dracula (1931)
Alan Crosland Directed Bobbed Hair (1925)
Carl Laemmle Jr. Produced Dracula (1931)
Edward Van Sloan Also in Dracula and The Life of Vergie Winters
George Fitzmaurice Directed One Heavenly Night (1930)
Tay Garnett Directed Mrs. Parkington (1944)
Howard Hickman Louis wrote Mrs. Parkington (1944)
John Boles Also in One Heavenly Night (1930)
William K. Howard Directed Johnny Come Lately (1943)
William Cagney Produced Johnny Come Lately (1943)
Lewis Seiler Directed It All Came True (1940)
Alfred Santell Directed The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
Mark Hellinger Produced It All Came True (1940)
Marion Gering Directed 24 Hours (1931)
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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.
