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Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of Waterloo Bridge, Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night, and The Best Years of Our Lives. He was a screenwriter on the adapted films Rebecca and The Bishop's Wife .
Robert E. Sherwood (born April 4, 1896, New Rochelle, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 14, 1955, New York City) was an American playwright whose works reflect involvement in human problems, both social and political.
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Robert E. Sherwood was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter who worked with many Hollywood legends. He also served in WWII and wrote for radio and TV.
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Learn about the life and career of Robert Emmet Sherwood, a prominent American playwright and journalist who won two Pulitzer Prizes. Explore his family background, education, military service, literary achievements, and political activism.
One of the nation's first film critics, an acclaimed speechwriter on his own and for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a propagandist during World War II, a...
- Harriet Hyman Alonso
Idiot's Delight is a 1936 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood and presented by the Theatre Guild. The play takes place in the Hotel Monte Gabriel in the Italian Alps during 24 hours at the beginning of a world war.
Robert E. Sherwood made his reputation as a dramatist, although he received considerable recognition and a Pulitzer Prize for Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), a detailed historical study of the...
