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The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution

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Winner of the 2021 IACP Award for Literary or Historical Food Writing

Longlisted for the 2021 Plutarch Award


How a leading writer of the Lost Generation became America's 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 ...