Together, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee have written famous works of American drama including Inherit the Wind, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and Auntie Mame. For their work as playwrights, they have won two Peabody Awards, the Variety Critics Poll Award, multiple Tony Award nominations, and many more awards. Their plays have been widely produced in America and throughout the world, have been adapted as films, and have been translated into numerous languages.
Jerome Lawrence was born July 14, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio, into a literary family. His father, Samuel Lawrence, was the owner a printing company, as well as an expert on baseball. His mother, Sarah Rogen Lawrence, was a...
