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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. [1] Lawrence and Lee became the most prolific writing partnership in radio, with such long-running series as ...
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 Medical ...
Inherit the Wind (play) Inherit the Wind. (play) Inherit the Wind is an American play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which debuted in Dallas under the direction of Margo Jones in 1955. The story fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials.
Nov 4, 2003 · — New York World-Telegram And Sun “Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. . . . Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. . . . We’re still arguing this case–all the way to the White House.”
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Playwright Robert E. Lee was educated in his hometown of Elyria, Ohio, then at Northwestern and Ohio Wesleyan Universities. With colleague-collaborator Jerome Lawrence, Lee's place in American theater history is assured by a prodigious volume of work, including the contemporaryRead More ›
Jul 30, 2024 · Robert E. Lee (born January 19, 1807, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland county, Virginia, U.S.—died October 12, 1870, Lexington, Virginia) was a U.S. Army officer (1829–61), Confederate general (1861–65), college president (1865–70), and central figure in contending memory traditions of the American Civil War.
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1. R.E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman. Published in 1934, this four-volume book by Douglas Southall Freeman chronicles all of the major events and highlights of Robert E. Lee’s military career. The book discusses everything from Lee’s experiences in the Mexican-War to his surrender at Appomattox.
