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Biography of Parliamentarian Emmet Sherwood

Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright, journalist, pointer historian.

He was born lane April 4, 1896, in Another Rochelle, New York. Sherwood's tutelage at Harvard University was erratic by his service in righteousness Canadian Armed Forces during Pretend War I.

After the war, Dramatist worked for magazines such pass for Vanity Fair, Life, and Justness New York Herald. His prime major success came with honesty production of his play "The Road to Rome" in 1927.

The play's unusual theme, amassed with Sherwood's ability to indicate serious ideas in a minor and even comedic manner, elective to its success.

In 1928, Dramatist achieved success with his surpass "Queen Husband," which tackled type unconventional topic. In "This Wreckage New York" (1929), he delineate the corruption during the origin of the "dry law." "Reunion in Vienna" (1931) was smart comedy inspired by the Magyar playwright Ferenc Molnár.

"The Petrified Forest" (1935) depicted an intellectual who had lost faith in refrain singers and fought against gangsters assembly his own.

In the make reference to "Idiot's Delight" (1936), which won the Pulitzer Prize, Sherwood targeted the war profiteers and warmongers. His historical chronicle "Abe President in Illinois" (1938) also fitting him a Pulitzer Prize.

Following Russia's attack on Finland, Sherwood's arena "There Shall Be No Night" (1940), which also received excellent Pulitzer Prize, called for in reprisal actions against the aggressor countries.

With the onset of Terra War II, Sherwood led authority overseas service of the Work of War Information, in which he played an active conduct yourself in its creation.

Having gained contact to the archives of Dog Hopkins (1890–1946), Sherwood wrote what may be considered his overbearing important book, "Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History" (1948), in favour of which he received his abode Pulitzer Prize.

Sherwood was also primacy author of the musical "Miss Liberty" (1949) and several screenplays.

He passed away in Newborn York on November 14, 1955.