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Sidney Coe Howard
1891–1939
Best remembered for the screenplay of Gone with the Wind, he was also a major American playwright who helped bring a more realistic, psychologically rich style to the stage. His work moves easily between Broadway drama and Hollywood storytelling, with a Pulitzer Prize marking his place in both worlds.
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"Lexington": A Pageant-Drama of the American Freedom
by Sidney Coe Howard
About the author
Born in Oakland, California, in 1891, Sidney Coe Howard became an American playwright and screenwriter whose career connected the theater and film worlds. Reliable reference sources agree that he won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for They Knew What They Wanted, and that he later received a posthumous Academy Award for the screenplay of Gone with the Wind.
Howard is often noted for bringing psychological realism to the American stage. Among the works most often highlighted are They Knew What They Wanted, The Silver Cord, and Yellow Jack, along with screenwriting credits that included Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, and Gone with the Wind.
He died in 1939 in Tyringham, Massachusetts, at just 48 years old. Even with a relatively short life, his writing left a lasting mark on both Broadway and classic Hollywood.