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Louis Bromfield

1896 - 1956

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Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Bromfield is the 4,097th most popular writer (up from 4,686th in 2019), the 6,037th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,345th in 2019) and the 462nd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Louis Bromfield ranks 4,097 out of 7,302. Before him are Dimitrija Demeter, You Xie, François le Métel de Boisrobert, Lilian Jackson Braun, Rafik Schami, and Murad Wilfried Hofmann. After him are Corinna, Olaf Bull, Don Miguel Ruiz, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Simon Vestdijk, and Johannes Linnankoski.

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Among people born in 1896, Louis Bromfield ranks 179. Before him are Sao Shwe Thaik, Xue Yue, Joseph Schildkraut, Rafael Franco, Yu Dafu, and Lado Gudiashvili. After him are William Cameron Menzies, Vasily Gordov, Friedrich Waismann, Rodolfo Terlizzi, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, and Ulises Saucedo. Among people deceased in 1956, Louis Bromfield ranks 140. Before him are Herminio Masantonio, Vladimir Filatov, Johannes Jørgensen, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Austin Osman Spare, and Sergei Vasilenko. After him are Doca, Violet Gibson, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Flora Sandes, Lewis Terman, and Lorenzo Perosi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louis Bromfield ranks 6,037 out of 20,380. Before him are Stephen A. Douglas (1813), Marc Lawrence (1910), Dick Powell (1904), Mark Damon (1933), Suge Knight (1965), and Nat Turner (1800). After him are Vanilla Ice (1967), Dean Phillips (1969), Edward Robinson (1794), Terrence Howard (1969), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), and William Gilmore (1895).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Louis Bromfield ranks 462. Before him are Emma Lazarus (1849), Gene Wolfe (1931), Leigh Brackett (1915), Laura Bridgman (1829), Mark Frost (1953), and Lilian Jackson Braun (1913). After him are Peter Straub (1943), Melissa Mathison (1950), Sonny Barger (1938), James Thurber (1894), Hart Crane (1899), and Edna Ferber (1885).

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