| Robert E. Sherwood AKA Robert Emmet Sherwood Born: 4-Apr-1896
Birthplace: New Rochelle, NY
Died: 14-Nov-1955
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Abe Lincoln in Illinois Military service: Canadian Army (Black Watch, WWI, wounded, discharged 1919) Wrote the script to The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Father: Arthur Murray Sherwood
Mother: Rosina Emmet Sherwood
Wife: Mary Brandon (m. 29-Oct-1922, div.)
Wife: Madeline Hurlock (m. 15-Jun-1935, until his death)
High School: Milton Academy, Massachusetts
University: Harvard University
Scribner's Literary Editor (1928-30)
Life Motion Picture Editor (1924-28)
Life Film Critic (1920-24)
Vanity Fair Drama Editor (1919-20)
Dramatists Guild of America
Dutch Treat Club (1922-26)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1936 for Idiot's Delight
Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1939 for Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1941 for There Shall Be No Night
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1949 for Roosevelt and Hopkins
Oscar for Best Screenplay 1947 for The Best Years of Our Lives
Algonquin Round Table
Author of books:
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (1948, biography)
Wrote plays:
The Road to Rome (1927)
The Love Nest (1927)
The Queen's Husband (1928)
Waterloo Bridge (1930)
This is New York (1930)
Reunion in Vienna (1931)
Acropolis (1933)
The Petrified Forest (1935)
Tovarich (1935)
Idiot's Delight (1936)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938)
There Shall Be No Night (1941)
The Rugged Path (1945)
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