WRITER

Louis Bromfield

1896 - 1956

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Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Bromfield has received more than 335,884 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Louis Bromfield is the 4,686th most popular writer (down from 4,415th in 2019), the 6,346th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,169th in 2019) and the 508th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The farm
Farm life, Rural families, Fiction
1933
The strange case of Miss Annie Spragg
Personal copy, Library
1928
Mrs. Parkington
1943
Pleasant Valley
Farmers, Intellectual life, American Authors
1945
The rains came
Fiction, Social life and customs, British
1937
Mrs. Parkington
Large type books, Fiction, general
1943
Pleasant Valley
Farmers, Intellectual life, American Authors
1945
The rains came
Fiction in English
1937
The farm
Farm life, Rural families, Fiction
1933
The rains came
Fiction, Social life and customs, British
In the town of Ranchipur, four people find their lives become entwined by unexpected feelings and events they cannot control. Tom Ransome, son of an English earl, is living a painter's life. He is pursued by a flirtatious young English girl who adores him. Lady Esketh is a beautiful bored sophisticate and Tom's former girlfriend. And Major Rama is the dedicated Hindu surgeon who captures her heart. When a catastrophic earthquake and flood bring disaster to India, all their lives are forever transformed by the striking clash between good and evil, duty and forbidden love.
1937
The strange case of Miss Annie Spragg
Personal copy, Library, Americans
1928

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louis Bromfield ranks 4,686 out of 7,302. Before him are Gillian Rubinstein, Jean Vautrin, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Sultan Bahu, Shudraka, and Yoko Tawada. After him are Sakutarō Hagiwara, François Tristan l'Hermite, Aleksandrs Čaks, FM-2030, Zabel Sibil Asadour, and Mykola Zerov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Louis Bromfield ranks 192. Before him are Frank Loomis, Mordecai Ardon, Kostas Karyotakis, Miles Dempsey, Roger Sessions, and Nikolai Tikhonov. After him are Gerhard Fieseler, Barbara La Marr, Constantin Rădulescu, Ivan Merz, Hermann Jónasson, and Ruben Lagus. Among people deceased in 1956, Louis Bromfield ranks 149. Before him are Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, David Seymour, Albert Kluyver, Flora Sandes, Preston Tucker, and Grigory Shajn. After him are Louis Calhern, César Espinoza, Fanny Durack, Doca, Pyotr Konchalovsky, and Marie Doro.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Louis Bromfield ranks 6,346 out of 20,380. Before him are Tobias Wolff (1945), Bob James (1939), Charmian Carr (1942), Monique Alexander (1982), Helen Walton (1919), and Anthony Denison (1949). After him are Clint Walker (1927), Skeeter Davis (1931), Connie Britton (1967), Alan Ritchson (1982), Nita Naldi (1894), and Jimmy Durante (1893).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Louis Bromfield ranks 508. Before him are Robert Lowell (1917), James Agee (1909), Zane Grey (1872), Nicholas Meyer (1945), Eudora Welty (1909), and Tobias Wolff (1945). After him are Mary McCarthy (1912), Jonathan Carroll (1949), Bo Goldman (1932), Helene Hanff (1916), Shel Silverstein (1930), and Saul Alinsky (1909).

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