He is best known for Auntie Mame,Inherit the Wind, and First Monday in October, which he co-wrote with Robert E. Lee. In all, they collaborated on 39 works. A theatre archive is named for them at their alma mater, Ohio State University.
He worked for several small newspapers as a reporter/editor before moving into radio as a writer for CBS. He taught playwriting at the University of Southern California's Master of Professional Writing Program. The school recently named its one-act-play festival in his honor.
Although his works are still produced, Lawrence's lone Tony Award nomination was for Best Musical, for Mame (book). He died due to complications from a stroke.
Lawrence, in addition to his service in the military, as a young man worked as a journalist, reporter, and telegraph editor of small Ohio daily papers and as a continuity editor at KMPC in Beverly Hills.
Lawrence is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Villanova, the College of Wooster, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Ohio State University.
Lawrence was a visiting professor at Ohio State and a master playwright at New York University, Baylor University, and the Salzburg Seminar in American studies.
JeromeLawrence, a playwright and theater director whose plays include the classic courtroom drama "Inherit the Wind," died Feb. 29 at his home in Malibu, his niece Deborah Robison said.
Lawrence and his partner again captured the zeitgeist, this time during the Vietnam era, with their play about Thoreau's act of civil disobedience in refusing to pay taxes to support a war against Mexico.
Lawrence was a writer for CBS radio and Lee was working for the Young and Rubicam advertising agency.
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