After a few years, Sherwood and two other colleagues left to go to Life magazine. And he soon became the editor of Life. He earned a lot of money as a publisher, but he also had a lot of debt and was forced to turn to writing plays in order to have money. And in 1926 he wrote his first professional play called The Road to Rome and in early 1927 it ran for three hundred and ninety-two performances in New York at the Playhouse. He then wrote his second play Abe Lincoln in Illinois, this play was his longest running play in New York theaters. The success of these plays helped Sherwood's financial problems. Sherwood continued to write and soon finished another play called The Love Nest, which ran for only twenty-five performances and was a great disappointment to Sherwood. After a mediocre play, Sherwood did not give up and wrote another play called The Queen's Husband and once again it was not as successful as his first play, and ran for one hundred and twenty-five performances. Sherwood continued to write successful plays, but others were criticized for being repetitive of Sherwood's (Johnston) earlier plays. Sherwood was nevertheless rewarded for his successful works. Sherwood has won four Pulitzer Prizes for drama, biography, and autobiography. It also won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1946 and also