LUCILLE FLETCHER

Countries: United States of America

Occupation: Writer, Screen Writer,
Librettist
Type: Film, Television, Stage and Radio,
Literature, Music
Gender: Female
Birth: 28 March 1912, Brooklyn, New
York City, New York, U.S.A
Death: 31 August 2000, Langhorne,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A (aged 88 Years)
Spouse: Douglas Wallop
Bernard Herrmann
Violet Lucille Fletcher (March 28,1912 – August 31,
2000) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and
television. 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 1948 film noir classic of the same.
Married to composer Bernard Herrmann in 1939, she
wrote the libretto for his opera Wuthering Heights,
which he began in 1943 and completed 1951, after their
divorce.

BIOGRAPHY
violet Lucille fletcher was born march 28, 1912,
Brooklyn, New York. her parents were Mathew
Emerson fletcher, a marine draftsman for the Standard
Ship Company (a subsidiary of the Standard Oil
Company of New jersey), and violet (Anderson) fletcher.
 AWARDS

Sorry, Wrong Number received the Edgar Allan

Poe Award from the mystery Writers of America.