Louis Bromfield

Jayne Waterman

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 27 Dec 1896
Died 18 Mar 1956
Activity 1920-1956

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States; England; France

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Other

Autobiographer
Essayist
Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Journalist
Playwright / Dramatist
Political writer
Soldier
Travel writer

Resources

Bromfield's Works

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Louis Bromfield was a Midwestern-American writer and farmer whose wide-ranging career, straddling the literary, the commercial, and the agricultural, spanned over four decades from 1920-1956. Despite his early promise, gaining accolades such as the Pulitzer Prize (1927), the O Henry Memorial Short Story Award (1927), nomination to

Vanity Fair

’s Hall of Fame (1927), and membership to America’s National Institute of Arts and Letters (1928), Bromfield started to lose critical favour in the 1930s. He continued to write prolifically, in both fiction and non-fiction, commanding a large readership and best-selling status; however, critically Bromfield became increasingly neglected. This neglect was due, in part, to scathing reviews such as Edmund Wilson’s “What Became of Louis…

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Citation: Waterman, Jayne. "Louis Bromfield". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 June 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=578, accessed 27 November 2024.]