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Robert Edwin Lee (October 15, 1918 – July 8, 1994) was an American playwright and lyricist. In the early years of World War II, Lee partnered with Jerome Lawrence to create Armed Forces Radio while serving together in the U.S. Army.
Honored playwright-director Jerome Lawrence, in collaboration with Robert E. Lee, created enduring works of the American theatre, including Inherit the Wind; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, which premiered at Ohio State and then went to become "the most widely produced play of our time" and Auntie Mame.
Jul 9, 1994 · Robert E. Lee, a prolific playwright and adapter of material for radio and the stage and a co-author of the historical courtroom drama "Inherit the Wind," died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai...
Robert Edwin Lee was an American playwright and lyricist. In the early years of World War II, Lee partnered with Jerome Lawrence to create Armed Forces Radio while serving together in the U.S. Army. Lawrence and Lee became the most prolific writing partnership in radio, with such long-running series as Favorite Story among others.
American playwright and educator Robert E. Lee had a successful writing partnership with playwright Jerome Lawrence for about 50 years. Together the two wrote and produced a wide variety of plays that were commercially successful and critically acclaimed.
Co-founder of the Armed Forces Radio Service, American Playwrights Theatre and the Margo Jones Award, Lee was very much involved in both the academic and professional theater scene as dramatist, director and teacher.
He also helped found the Armed Forces Radio Service with friend and business partner Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee was born not far from Jerome Lawrence, in a distant suburb of Cleveland called Elyria. His mother, Elvira, was a teacher, and his father, Claire, was an engineer.
