Louis Bromfield was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1896. He was a bestselling novelist in the 1920s, and in the late 1930s he became a farmer, founding Malabar Farm near Mansfield and becoming an early advocate of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States.
His novels include The Green Bay Tree (1924), Possession (1925), Early Autumn (1926) and The Rains Came (1937). Early Autumn won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. He was first vice president of Friends of the Land in 1941, and he died in Columbus, Ohio, in 1956.
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