Biography
Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896–1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He studied at Harvard University and worked as an editor at Vanity Fair and Life magazine before his first Broadway play, The Road to Rome (1927).
Sherwood wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Rebecca (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and The Bishop's Wife (1947). His stage works include The Petrified Forest (1935), Idiot's Delight (1936), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938) and There Shall Be No Night (1940). He co-founded the Playwrights' Company in 1938 and received four Pulitzer Prizes and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
