Robert E. Sherwood - (1896 - 1955)

The playwright Robert E. Sherwood captured the changing American attitudes toward the country and traditional values during the 1930s, with plays such as The Petrified Forest. In 1936 Idiot's Delight won him the first of four Pulitzer Prizes. The specter of Fascism in Europe convinced him of the need to defend liberty with military action, a motif which runs through two other Pulitzer Prize-winning works: Abe Lincoln in Illinois and There Shall Be No Night. He served as speechwriter and advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. He also won the Academy Award for his scenario for The Best Years of Our Lives.

As a movie reviewer for Life Sherwood wrote, "they say [popular Western star Tom Mix] rides like part of the horse, but they don't say what part."