In one of this author's plays, a prostitute named Myra dies during a German air raid as she lights a cigarette on a bridge. Earlier in that play, she accepts a marriage proposal from a naÃ¯ve Canadian soldier named Roy. This author of Waterloo Bridge also wrote a work in which Pittaluga hires an American named Don to put on winter sports activities for his guests. In that 
In one of this author's plays, a prostitute named Myra dies during a German air raid as she lights a cigarette on a bridge. Earlier in that play, she accepts a marriage proposal from a naÃ¯ve Canadian soldier named Roy. This author of Waterloo Bridge also wrote a work in which Pittaluga hires an American named Don to put on winter sports activities for his guests. In that play, the male lead falls in love with a woman he believes to be a Russian countess from a previous romantic encounter and is the leader of a group of (*) blonde dancers. That play by this author ends with Harry and Irene deciding to stay in a Swiss hotel that gets bombed. The female lead of another play by this author is obsessed with Francois Villon and dreams of moving to France, which prompts Duke Mantee to murder Alan Squier. In that play, the Chisholm family becomes trapped at the Black Mesa BBQ. For 10 points, name this American playwright of Idiot's Delight and The Petrified Forest.
In one of this author's plays, a prostitute named Myra dies during a German air raid as she lights a cigarette on a bridge.
Robert Emmet  Sherwood