Robert Emmet Sherwood biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Robert Emmet Sherwood

Author Name:

Robert Emmet Sherwood

Born As:

Robert Emmet Sherwood

Other Names:

Born:

4 Apr 1896

Died:

14 Nov 1955




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Selected Works:

The Road to Rome - 1927 - adapted into the 1927 film The Private Life of Helen of Troy
The Love Nest - 1927
The Queen's Husband - 1928 - adapted into the 1931 film The Royal Bed.
Waterloo Bridge - 1930 - adapted into a 1931 film and two soap-operas in Brazil.
This is New York - 1930 - adapted into the 1932 film Two Kinds of Women.
Reunion in Vienna - 1931 - adapted into a 1933 film.
Acropolis - 1933
The Petrified Forest - 1935 - adapted into 1936 film with Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.
Tovarich - 1935 - adapted into a 1937 film.
Idiot's Delight - 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - adapted into 1939 film
Abe Lincoln in Illinois - 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - adapted into 1940 film. See Abe Lincoln in Illinois - film.
There Shall Be No Night - 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Rugged Path - 1945
Small War on Murray Hill

Nonfiction:

The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-1923
Who's Who in the Movies and the Yearbook of the American Screen.
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History -1948.
                          
Mother Rosina Emmet Sherwood
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 1936, 1939, 1941.
Pulitzer Prize for Biography - 1948.