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The Most Famous Farmer You've Never Heard Of

The Most Famous Farmer You've Never Heard Of

A trip to Louis Bromfield's polycultural paradise in Ohio

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Boaz Frankel
Sep 13, 2023
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Louis Bromfield must be one of the most famous people I’ve never heard of. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning author of dozens of bestsellers. Like Hemingway, he was an American who lived in France and drove an ambulance in World War I. He gardened with Edith Wharton and regularly hung out with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and a few US Presidents. I…

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