A FEW NOTES ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LAWRENCE AND LEE

Jerome Lawrence was born on July 14, 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio State University with a B. A. degree in 1937 and completed his graduate study at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1939. He began his career as a reporter and telegraph editor for the Wilmington News Journal in Wilmington, Ohio. The most noteworthy event in his early career was his chance meeting with Robert E. Lee in a restaurant in New York City in 1942. The two men subsequently formed a partnership which proved to be long-lasting, productive, and very successful.

Robert E. Lee was born in Elyria, Ohio on October 14, 1918. He attended Northwestern University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Western Reserve University, and Drake University. In 1948 he married Janet Waldo, and they had two children, a boy and a girl.

Together, Lawrence and Lee not only wrote the powerful play Inherit the Wind, but also wrote such famous works as Auntie Mame, Only in America, Mame, Dear World, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Incomparable Max!, The Crocodile Smile, and Jabberwock

Their other accomplishments range from being the founders of the Armed Forces Radio Service to writing, directing,and/or producing other many other plays as well as radio and television programs including "Hollywood Showcase," "I Was There," "Orson Welles Theatre," "Frank Sinatra Show," "Hallmark Hall of Fame," "Times Square Playhouse," and "Lincoln: The Unwilling Warrior."

The list of awards these two authors have won, the list of their achievements, and the list of the work they have done in their careers is as long as a child's list for Santa Claus.

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