Louis Bromfield

Emerging from a modest Ohio farm background, he briefly pursued agricultural studies at Cornell before turning to journalism at Columbia, a path interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps during World War I. After the war he entered New York's literary scene, publishing his first novel in 1924 and quickly gaining acclaim; the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for the novel Early Autumn marked the p… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources