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How a leading writer of the Lost Generation became Americas most famous farmer and inspired the organic food movement. Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fitzgerald. But he cashed in his literary success to finance a wild agrarian dream in his native Ohio. The ideas he planted at his utopian experimental farm, Malabar, would inspire Americas first generation of organic farmers and popularize the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carsons Silent Spring. A lanky Midwestern farm boy dressed up like a Left Bank bohemian, Bromfield stood out in literary Paris for his lavish hospitality and his green thumb. He built a magnificent garden outside the city where he entertained aristocrats, movie stars, flower breeders and writers of all stripes. Gertrude Stein enjoyed his food, Edith Wharton admired his roses, Ernest Hemingway boiled with jealousy over his critical acclaim. Millions savored his novels, which were turned into Broadway plays and Hollywood blockbusters, yet Bromfields greatest passion was the soil. In 1938, Bromfield returned to Ohio to transform 600 badly e

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Author

Heyman, Stephen, author

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781324001898

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (139 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14