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  1. 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 .

  2. Robert E. Sherwood was an American playwright whose works reflect involvement in human problems, both social and political. Sherwood was an indifferent student at Milton Academy and Harvard University, failing the freshman rhetoric course while performing well and happily on the Lampoon, the humour.

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  3. May 18, 2018 · Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955) was an American playwright whose penetrating dramas often showed an idealistic hero confronted with war. Robert E. Sherwood was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on April 4, 1896. He graduated from Milton Academy (1914) and from Harvard (1917).

  4. 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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  5. Robert E. Sherwood was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, movie critic, and screenwriter who worked with many Hollywood legends. He also served in WWI, founded the Algonquin Club, and wrote about American history.

    • April 4, 1896
    • November 14, 1955
  6. 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.

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  8. The Petrified Forest, drama in two acts by Robert Sherwood, published and produced in 1935. This melodramatic Depression-era tale of frustrated lives and spiritual emptiness is set in a gas station and lunchroom along an Arizona highway.

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