Sidney Coe Howard

Sidney Coe Howard (1891-1939), American playwright, born in Oakland, California, and educated at the University of California and Harvard University. His first play, the romantic drama Swords, was produced in 1921. They Knew What They Wanted (1925), a drama set among the grape growers of California, won the Pulitzer Prize in drama in 1925. Among Howard's other theatrical works are The Silver Cord (1926); Yellowjack (1928); Half-Gods (1929); The Late Christopher Bean (1933); Dodsworth (1934), from the novel by Sinclair Lewis; and Paths of Glory (1935). He also adapted for the American stage several plays from the French, Spanish, and Hungarian and wrote the screen versions of such popular novels as Lewis's Arrowsmith and Dodsworth and Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.