Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (born 1896)

Louis Bromfield

American author and conservationist (1896–1956)

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…