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Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955) was an American playwright whose penetrating dramas often showed an idealistic hero confronted with war. Robert E. Sherwood was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on April 4, 1896. He graduated from Milton Academy (1914) and fr...

In the 1930s few living American playwrights were better known than Robert Emmet Sherwood. Offstage, when he served as an adviser to the president of the United States, and onstage, through productions such as The Road to Rome (1927), Reunion in Vienna (...

Robert E. Sherwood's dramatic works belong in the corpus of socially committed literature that was rooted in the ferment of the interwar period. A prolific playwright, Sherwood made a substantial contribution to American drama, averaging one play a year....

Actor Sam Waterston plays the role of Abraham Lincoln in a re-make of the Robert Sherwood Pulitzer-winning play, 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois.' The play was written in 1938 as a response to the complacent attitude of Americans to Hitler's continuing conquest of Europe. It...

Pastor S.M. Davis has a vision, and there are references to it all over the office of the Park Meadows Baptist Church in this central Illinois town where he has ministered since 1975 -- framed pictures on the walls, an interactive PowerPoint presentation on...