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Robert E. Sherwood

1896 - 1955

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Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of Waterloo Bridge, Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night, and The Best Years of Our Lives. He was a screenwriter on the adapted films Rebecca and The Bishop's Wife. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1936, 1939, 1941), an Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1947) and a Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1948). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert E. Sherwood is the 5,749th most popular writer (down from 3,909th in 2019), the 9,474th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,072nd in 2019) and the 692nd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Robert E. Sherwood ranks 5,749 out of 7,302. Before him are Júlia Lopes de Almeida, Raffaele La Capria, Leena Krohn, Martín Luis Guzmán, Rói Patursson, and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. After him are Roma Ryan, Michael Shermer, David Halberstam, Joel Chandler Harris, Penelope Lively, and Claude McKay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Robert E. Sherwood ranks 241. Before him are Blanche Sweet, Jack Pickford, Simon Barere, Albert Ball, Horacio Muñoz, and Samuel Mosberg. After him are Gösta Runö, Alister Hardy, Gopal Swarup Pathak, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Abrahamsson, and Rafael Garza Gutiérrez. Among people deceased in 1955, Robert E. Sherwood ranks 156. Before him are William C. deMille, John Fenning, Einar Arnórsson, Matthew Henson, Aleksei Dikiy, and Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva. After him are Richard Verderber, Giuseppe Domenichelli, George van Rossem, S. Z. Sakall, Harold Walden, and Herman Steiner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert E. Sherwood ranks 9,476 out of 20,380. Before him are Alexis Arquette (1969), Beatrice Hicks (1919), Roland Burris (1937), Iva Toguri D'Aquino (1916), Robert Stangland (1881), and David Koepp (1963). After him are Nestor Serrano (1955), Charley Grapewin (1869), Michael Shermer (1954), Larry Linville (1939), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), and Kent Beck (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert E. Sherwood ranks 692. Before him are Lloyd C. Douglas (1877), Alexei Panshin (1940), Bill O'Reilly (1949), William Cullen Bryant (1794), Hanya Yanagihara (1974), and Michael Parenti (1933). After him are Michael Shermer (1954), David Halberstam (1934), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Jacob Abbott (1803), William Blum (1933), and James Dashner (1972).

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