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

Career

Bromell joined the crew of

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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 ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Homicide: Life on the Street'', '' Brotherhood'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He was a consulting producer, and later executive producer on the Showtime series ''

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'' at the time of his death and wrote four episodes: "

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", " Representative Brody", " Q&A", and "

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". He was awarded a

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for "The Good Soldier", and he was posthumously awarded a

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for "Q&A". He shared the

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and the

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with the other producers of ''Homeland'' in 2012. He was nominated in the same category at the Emmys for his work on the 1993 TV series ''

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'', for which he was awarded a Writers Guild of America Award for the episode titled "Amazing Grace". Bromell wrote and directed the feature film ''

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'' (2000), which was nominated for the top prize at the Deauville Film Festival, and tele-movie ''

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playing writer

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. Bromell co-wrote the pilot of the

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TV series '' Falling Water'', which he co-created with

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Personal life

Bromell attended

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(1963) and the

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(1964–1966).Henry Bromell "Honour bound",

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, October 11, 2010 He graduated from

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in 1970. He won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for his first novel, ''The Slightest Distance''.January 5, 1975 The Slightest Distance (book review). ''

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''Oates, Joyce Carol (April 1, 1979). Full of Promising Material; Bromell. ''

'' His collection of short stories, ''I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo'', was published by Knopf.Broyard, Anatole (April 7, 1979). Books of The Times: A Second Naivete; A Folk-Rock Story A Bit Burdened. ''

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'' Bromell's work has appeared in two

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collections. Bromell's first wife was the screenwriter and director Caroline Thompson. He then married writer Trish Soodik, who died of cancer in January 2009; they had a son, William. His third wife was Sarah. Bromell died March 18, 2013, of a heart attack, at UCLA Santa Monica hospital at age 65.

Selected bibliography

*''The Slightest Distance'' (1974) Houghton Mifflin, *''I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo: Stories'' (1979) Knopf, *''Follower: A Novel'' (1983) Simon & Schuster, *''Little America'' (2002) Vintage,

References

External links

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