SHERWOOD, Robert Emmet

The Virtuous Knight

First edition. Slight darkening to the gutters, else fine in a modestly age-toned, very good plus dustwrapper with a short tear on the front panel. A nice copy of this important and prolific author's only novel, about a knight during the crusades, but which can be read as a modern morality tale. Sherwood won four Pulitzer Prizes (three for drama and one for history), an Academy Award (for his script for The Best Years of Our Lives) and wrote many of Franklin D. Roosevelt's most memorable speeches. He donated much of the enormous wealth he earned through his plays to charitable causes, especially to refugee relief during the Second World War.

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