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Robert E. Sherwood (Critical Survey of Drama)

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Robert E. Sherwood made his reputation as a dramatist, although he received considerable recognition and a Pulitzer Prize for Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), a detailed historical study of the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins during the war years; the British edition, entitled The White House Papers of Harry Hopkins, followed in 1949. Sherwood also wrote The Virtuous Knight (1931), a badly received novel. Both of these works demonstrate Sherwood’s interest in history. The Virtuous Knight is set in the...

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