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Louis Bromfield

ルイス・ブロムフィールド

Ruisu Buromufīrudo

Aliases: Lewis Brumfield

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1896-12-27 （Mansfield, Ohio, U.S.）
Died
1956-03-18 （Columbus, Ohio, U.S.） age 59
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Mansfield, Ohio, U.S. → Senlis, France → Malabar Farm, Ohio, U.S.

Career

Occupations
Writer, Conservationist, Farmer
Active Years
1924-1956
Affiliations
Malabar Farm
Memberships
Phi Delta Theta, Friends of the Land (Vice President)
Influenced By
Edith Wharton, Albert Howard
Influenced
Wendell Berry, Joel Salatin

Education

Cornell University
Agriculture
Period: 1914年（1学期）
Country: United States
Dropped out after one semester due to family financial issues
Columbia University
Journalism
Period: 1916年（1年未満）
Country: United States
Left after less than a year to serve in World War I

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
1927
Work: Early Autumn
Organization: Columbia University
Result: 受賞
Legion of Honour
1939
Work: Efforts in Spanish Civil War
Organization: French Government
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Early Autumn

1926 Novel

A harsh portrait of his wife's Puritan New England background. Pulitzer Prize winner.

FamilyNew England cultureIndependent women

The Rains Came

1937 Novel

Story set in India. Bestseller adapted into a popular film.

IndiaNatural disastersCross-cultural romance
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Rains Came / Clarence Brown (1939)

The Farm

1933 Novel

Autobiographical novel romanticizing his family's agrarian past.

Rural lifeFamily history

Pleasant Valley

1945 Memoir

Bestselling memoir on agriculture and environment.

Sustainable agricultureNature

Malabar Farm

1948 Memoir

Memoir about his experimental farm.

Soil conservationOrganic farming

Bibliography

  • The Green Bay Tree
  • Possession
  • Early Autumn
  • A Good Woman
  • The House of Women
  • The Work of Robert Nathan
  • The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg
  • Awake and Rehearse
  • Tabloid News
  • Twenty-four Hours
  • A Modern Hero
  • The Farm
  • Here Today and Gone Tomorrow
  • The Man Who Had Everything
  • It Had to Happen
  • The Rains Came
  • McLeod's Folly
  • England: A Dying Oligarchy
  • Night in Bombay
  • Wild Is the River
  • Until the Day Break
  • Mrs. Parkington
  • The World We Live In: Stories
  • What Became of Anna Bolton
  • Pleasant Valley
  • Bitter Lotus
  • A Few Brass Tacks
  • Colorado
  • Kenny
  • Malabar Farm
  • The Wild Country
  • Out of the Earth
  • Mr. Smith
  • The Wealth of the Soil
  • Up Ferguson Way
  • A New Pattern for a Tired World
  • Animals and Other People
  • From My Experience

Adaptations

  • The Rains Came (1939 film)

Translations of Works

  • What Became of Anna Bolton (Dutch)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Strong independent female protagonistsEarly works praised by critics, later dismissed as superficial
Recurring Motifs
Rural lifeSoil conservationSustainable agriculture

Health

  • Multiple myeloma
    1950年代初頭
    Cause of death, rapidly deteriorating health

Legacy

Bestselling novelist in 1920s who reinvented as farmer promoting sustainable and organic agriculture. Founded Malabar Farm, influenced environmental movement. Farm became state park posthumously.

Museums

  • Malabar Farm State Park Richland County, Ohio, U.S. Opened in 1976

Academic Societies

  • Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame

Archives

  • The Ohio State University's Rare Books & Manuscripts Library

In Popular Culture

  • Hosted wedding of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at Malabar Farm

Quotes

  • Strangers arriving by every train, Bromfield terracing against the rain,...
    Source: The New Yorker (1948)

Trivia

  • Originally spelled Lewis Brumfield, changed to Louis Bromfield for distinction
  • Claimed Croix de Guerre but no military records
  • Had a relationship with billionaire Doris Duke late in life