Biographies: Robert E. Sherwood - Writer

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An American author and playwright, he was born in New Rochelle, New York, and studied in New York. He was still young when he fought in World War I, with the Canadian forces on the French front. His later plays drew their themes from the European continent. His play The Road to Rome in 1927 was a violent and satirical account of Hannibal's invasion of Rome, and also had a reflexive impact on the United States. After returning from the war, Sherwood worked as an editor, but was soon dismissed from that job the same year his play was shown, due to his anti-domestic policy stance. Sherwood revealed a pacifist, anti-war stance in his next play Waterloo Bridge in 1929. He then presented The Petrified Forest in 1935 and Idiot's Delight in 1936, the latter of which won him the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the same award he would win twice in a row for his plays Abe Lincoln in Illinois in 1938 and There Shall Be No Night in 1940. He then became an assistant to US President Roosevelt. He wrote presidential speeches, and Sherwood wrote a biography of Roosevelt's life, Roosevelt and Hopkins, for which Sherwood also won the Pulitzer Prize.

• 9 October 2024
• farah ashraf