Louis Bromfield
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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Mansfield
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Awards
- 🏆 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel🏆 Croix de guerre 1914–1918🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour🏆 Audubon Medal
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"Truth may be found in the heart of a philosopher but seldom in the figures of a statistician; it is far too delicate a thing to be pinned down to columns of numbers on ruled paper."
"She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is no…"
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1896
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Birth1956
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