Robert E. Sherwood

Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and historian born in New Rochelle, New York. He achieved fame with anti-war plays like The Road to Rome (1927), winning Pulitzer Prizes for Drama for Idiot's Delight (1936), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), and There Shall Be No Night (1940), and an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). A member of the Algonquin Round Table, he later served as a speechwriter for President Roosevelt and director of the Office of War Information during World War II, also authoring the Pulitzer-winning biography Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948). Encyclopædia