エドワード・シェルドン (劇作家)

Edward Brewster Sheldon was an American dramatist. His plays include Salvation Nell and Romance, which was made into a motion picture with Greta Garbo. After becoming ill at age 29 with crippling rheumatoid arthritis, which eventually claimed his sight, Sheldon became a source of emotional and creative support for his many friends, notably Minnie Maddern Fiske, Julia Marlowe, John Barrymore, Thornton Wilder, Alexander Woollcott, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Ruth Gordon, Helen Hayes.