	Ohioana Authors list

Awards and Honors

Croix de Guerre and Chevalier, Legion d'honneur (France), 1919
Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for Early Autumn, 1927
O. Henry Short Story Award for "The Scarlet," 1927; and "The Skeleton at the Feast," 1928
Audubon medal, for leadership in conservation farming, 1952
Honorary degrees: Marshall College, Parsons College and Ohio Northern University
Elected to the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame (posthumously), 1980

Dedication of the Louis Bromfield lobby, Ohio Department of Agriculture headquarters, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, 1996.

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The mission of the Ohioana Library Association is to recognize and encourage the creative accomplishments of Ohioans, to preserve and to expand a permanent archive of books, sheet music, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and about Ohio, and to disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers, musicians, and other artists to researchers, schools, and the general public.