Background
Louis (Brucker) Bromfield was born on the 27th of December 1896 in Mansfield, Ohio, United States. He was the son of Charles Bromfield who was a farmer. Louis Bromfield combined his early interest in farm culture with his skill as a storyteller in several novels, plays, and short story collections. Particularly noted for his independent, strong-willed female protagonists, Bromfield’s popularity with readers during the inter-war years was broadened due to his deftly drawn characters, romantic intrigue, descriptions that reflect the author’s love of nature, and the threads of strong social consciousness that run throughout his fiction.