Sidney Coe Howard (1891–1939) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He was born in Oakland, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career as a journalist, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune. Howard's first play, They Knew What They Wanted, was produced on Broadway in 1924 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925. He went on to write several more plays, including The Silver Cord (1926), The Homecoming (1927), and The Late Christopher Bean (1932). He also wrote the screenplay for the classic film Gone with the Wind (1939). In addition to his plays and screenplays, Howard wrote several novels, including The Great Impersonation (1921) and The Lady of the Decoration (1926). He also wrote short stories and essays, which were published in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. Howard died in 1939 at the age of 48. He was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1970.
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