Learn more about Louis Bromfield
When he was born in Mansfield in 1896 his name was Lewis Bromfield, but by the time he was 30 and had won the Pulitzer Prize. the name on the cover of his books was Louis Bromfield. Here he is in 1913 as a junior at Mansfield High School.
He grew up on Third Street, 
a few doors east of Sycamore Street, and he called his home "a hotel for wayfaring relatives." In this photograph he is seated on the left.
His first novel, The Green Bay Tree, took for its setting a place he called Shane's Castle that was based on Oak Hill Cottage in Mansfield that belonged to his Great-Aunt Francis Jones. She had four daughters, but for the purposes of his fiction he told a story of only two daughters whose lives stood in sharp contrast.
