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

Bromell joined the crew ofNBC police dramaHomicide: 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-upHomicide: The Movie in 2000.

He wrote and produced for many television series, includingChicago Hope,Northern Exposure,Homicide: Life on the Street,Brotherhood,Carnivàle, andRubicon. He was a consulting producer, and later executive producer on the Showtime seriesHomeland at the time of his death and wrote four episodes: "The Good Soldier", "Representative Brody", "Q&A", and "Broken Hearts". He was awarded aWriters Guild of America Award for "The Good Soldier", and he was posthumously awarded aPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for "Q&A".^[1] He shared thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and theGolden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama with the other producers ofHomeland in 2012.^[2] He was nominated in the same category at the Emmys for his work on the 1993 TV seriesI'll Fly Away,^[2] for which he was awarded a Writers Guild of America Award for the episode titled "Amazing Grace".

Bromell wrote and directed the feature filmPanic (2000), which was nominated for the top prize at the Deauville Film Festival, and tele-movieLast Call (akaFitzgerald), withJeremy Irons playing writerF. Scott Fitzgerald.

Bromell co-wrote the pilot of theUSA Network TV seriesFalling Water, which he co-created withBlake Masters.^[3]

Bromell's father served in theCentral Intelligence Agency.^[4]

Bromell attendedEaglebrook School (1963) and theUnited World College of the Atlantic (1964–1966).^[5] He graduated fromAmherst College in 1970. He won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award for his first novel,The Slightest Distance.^[6][7] His collection of short stories,I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo, was published by Knopf.^[8] Bromell's work has appeared in twoO. Henry Award 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.^[9][10]

• The Slightest Distance (1974) Houghton Mifflin,ISBN 978-0-395-19408-9
• I Know Your Heart, Marco Polo: Stories (1979) Knopf,ISBN 978-0-394-50116-1
• Follower: A Novel (1983) Simon & Schuster,ISBN 978-0-671-43271-3
• Little America (2002) Vintage,ISBN 978-0-375-71891-5

• Henry Bromell atIMDb

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