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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. Robert Emmet Sherwood, the son of Arthur Murray Sherwood, a rich stockbroker, and his wife, the former Rosina Emmet, was born in New Rochelle on 4th April 1896. He was a great-grandnephew of the Irish nationalist Robert Emmet who was executed for high treason in 1803.
Robert E. Sherwood. Writer: The Best Years of Our Lives. Robert E. Sherwood, a brilliant multifaceted writer, was born to Arthur Murray and Rosina Emmet Sherwood, educated at the Milton Academy (Massachusetts) and Harvard, and was wounded while serving with the Canadian Black Watch in WWI.
Between 1940 and 1945 he was the principal speech writer for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and overseas director of the Office of War Information. Sherwood, who had won three Pulitzer prizes for his plays, won a fourth for Roosevelt and Hopkins, his book chronicling World War II.
Relying largely on his letters, diaries, plays, films, essays, and biography of Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins, she traces Sherwood's obsession with the world of politics and its effects on his life and art, from his experience as a soldier in World War I to the Cold War.
Robert E. Sherwood, noted playwright and author who won four Pulitzer Prizes, died yesterday morning in New York Hospital at the age of 59.
In this paper, I provide the first extended literary analysis of Sher wood's The Road to Rome, which was a hit on the Broadway stage in 1927.1 illustrate how the major characters of the play embody social and ethical conflicts being played out in New York in the 1920s.
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