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Dinner Disrupted: The Planter of Modern Life author talk with Stephen Heyman

Dinner Disrupted: The Planter of Modern Life author talk with Stephen Heyman Online

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

How did 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 at his utopian experimental farm, Malabar, would inspire America’s first generation of organic farmers and popularize the tenets of environmentalism years before Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

This sweeping biography unearths a lost icon of American culture, a fascinating, hilarious and unclassifiable character who—between writing and plowing—also dabbled in global politics and high society. Through it all, he fought for an agriculture that would enrich the soil and protect the planet. While Bromfield’s name has faded into obscurity, his mission seems more critical today than ever before.

 

Stephen Heyman is a writer and editor based in Innsbruck, Austria. His first book, The Planter of Modern Life, a biography of the Lost Generation novelist and visionary farmer Louis Bromfield, won the IACP Award for literary/historical food writing and was long-listed for the Plutarch Prize for best biography. A former features editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine, he has written for The TimesCondé Nast TravelerSlateVogue and the Wall Street Journal, among others. In 2018, he was named a fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar.

Date:
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Branch:
Trumbull Library
Online:
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  Adults  
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  Author Talk  
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