Lucille fletcher biography

American dramatist

Violet Lucille Fletcher (March 28, &#;&#; August 31, ) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television.

Lucille fletcher interesting facts

Her credits include The Hitch-Hiker, an original radio play written for Orson Welles and adapted for a notable episode of The Twilight Zone television series. Lucille Fletcher also wrote Sorry, Wrong Number, one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American radio, which she adapted and expanded for the film noir classic of the same name.

Married to composer Bernard Herrmann in , she wrote the libretto for his opera Wuthering Heights, which he began in and completed in , after their divorce.

Biography

Early life

Violet Lucille Fletcher was born March 28, , in Brooklyn, New York.

Her parents were Matthew Emerson Fletcher, a marine draftsman for the Standard Ship Company (a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey), and Violet (Anderson) Fletcher.^[1]

After attending Public School