Twenty-Four Hours
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From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a "masterly" novel follows a day in the life of several guests of a dinner party that disrupts their lives (The New York Times). Who knew attending the dinner party of a scion from an old New York family could have such life-altering effects? In this Jazz Age novel originally published in 1930, an evening of jealousies and social tensions over dinner on Sutton Place comes to an end but it's the twenty-four hours that follow that prove most challenging for the guests, who confront infidelities, romance and for one hapless husband, accusations of murder. Adapted into a film starring Clive Brook and Kay Francis, Twenty-Four Hours is page-turning exploration of social climbing, adultery and crime from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Early Autumn.
Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield was an American author and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Early Autumn, which earned him national recognition for its startling depth of insight and brilliant portrayal of the challenges to old New England society. He is also the founder of the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio.
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