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...

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...

Edwin F. Sherwood, 77, a real estate broker and former Northern Virginia banker, died of cancer and a heart attack July 4 at Arlington Hospital. Mr. Sherwood, a resident of McLean, was born in Arlington and attended Washington-Lee High School, the old Western...

'The Petrified Forest' is one of the most perceptive works of Robert Sherwood. The story, which was written in 1935, took place in a small diner/gas station at the Arizona desert, which eventually became home to wanderers. Sherwood adopted the petrified forest setting in...