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- Birth nameLouis Brumfield
- Louis Bromfield was born on December 27, 1896 in Mansfield, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for One Heavenly Night (1930), The Rains Came (1939) and The Rains of Ranchipur (1955). He was married to Mary Appleton Wood. He died on March 18, 1956 in Mansfield, Ohio, USA.
- SpouseMary Appleton Wood(1921 - 1952) (her death, 3 children)
- Was a member of New York's so-called 'cafe society' in the 1930's. A notorious snob, Bromfield's circle of friends included flamboyant Herald-Times columnist Lucius Beebe (who regularly tattled on their comings and goings), Tallulah Bankhead, Clifton Webb and scandalized Broadway star Libby Holman.
- He was good friends with Humphrey Bogart; Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married in Bromfield's house.
- Bromfield was a direct descendant of legendary American frontiersman Daniel Boone.
- Winner of 1927 Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Early Autumn.
- Pulitzer prize-winning American adventure novelist, conservationist and right-wing polemicist.
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