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Alfred Henry Bromell (September 19, 1947 – March 18, 2013) was an American author, screenwriter, and director.
Career:
Bromell joined the crew of NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994. He served as a writer and co-executive producer for the show's third season. He contributed to writing seven episodes for the season. He was promoted to executive producer for the fourth season and wrote a further 17 episodes. He scaled back his involvement with the fifth season and became a consulting producer. He wrote a further two episodes before leaving the crew at the end of the season in 1997. He contributed to a total of 26 episodes as a writer over three seasons with the series. He returned as a co-writer and co-executive producer for the feature-length follow-up Homicide: The Movie in 2000.

He wrote and produced for many television series, including Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, Homicide: Life on the Street, Brotherhood, Carnivàle, and Rubicon. He was a consulting producer, and later Executive Producer on the Showtime series Homeland

I met the screenwriter and novelist Henry Bromell, born on this date in 1947, through Tillie Olsen in 1973. He was already publishing stories in the New Yorker at the time, and had been her student at Amherst College in 1970 (Tillie was now in residence at MIT). I had written her from Ploughshares, praising her debut collection, Tell Me A Riddle (1961), and asking her for new work. Tillie responded and alerted to me to Bromell, and also to Scott Turow and Fred Pfeil, also from Amherst. Bromell’s stories were soon to be collected in The Slightest Distance (1974); they reminded me of F. Scott Fitzgerald in their wit, nostalgia, and focus on a patrician State Department family, and on Scobie, the family’s writerly son.

That year I was editing a special “realism” issue of Ploughshares, affirming varieties of realism in the face of pronouncements about its obsolescence. Turow wrote a review of Olsen’s first novel, Yonnondio: From the Thirties, for the issue. He had also recommended a story by Pfeil, which I included. Earlier, publisher Seymour Lawrence had put me in touch wi

Henry Bromell

American novelist

Alfred Henry Bromell (September 19, 1947 – March 18, 2013) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and director.

Career

Bromell joined the crew of NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994. He served as a writer and co-executive producer for the show's third season. He contributed to writing seven episodes for the season. He was promoted to executive producer for the fourth season and wrote a further 17 episodes. He scaled back his involvement with the fifth season and became a consulting producer. He wrote a further two episodes before leaving the crew at the end of the season in 1997. He contributed to a total of 26 episodes as a writer over three seasons with the series. He returned as a co-writer and co-executive producer for the feature-length follow-up Homicide: The Movie in 2000.

He wrote and produced for many television series, including Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, Homicide: Life on the Street, Brotherhood, Carnivàle, and Rubicon. He was a consulting producer, and later executive producer o

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