Theatre Trivia Tweet: Robert Sherwood’s Amazing Success

Playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Sherwood.

Playwright Robert Sherwood won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama three times. What’s unusual about those three wins?

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He is the only playwright to win three in five years! He won in 1936 for Idiot’s Delight, in 1939 for Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and in 1941 for There Shall be no Night. Only one other playwright has won three (Edward Albee) and one playwright, Eugene O’Neill, won four.