Early Autumn Author:Louis Bromfield Early Autumn is the tale of the struggle between life and death in a New England fmaily, old and decayed, but of a high name and tradition once distinguished in the history of America. Its chief character is Olivia Pentland, beautiful, an "outsider" from Chicago who married into the family, battling to save herself from the attraction of a fasci... more »nating politician of the new school and to save her daughter from the blight that touches everything in the Pentland family. Won 1927 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.« less