Sherman Yellen

Sherman Yellen (born February 25, 1932, New York City) is an American playwright and screenwriter.

Sherman Yellen was born in 1932 to Nathan and Lillian Yellen. He attended the High School of Music & Art and graduated from Bard College on the Hudson in 1953 where he met Joan Fuhr. The couple wed after their graduation, and have two sons, Nicholas and Christopher.

At Bard, Yellen studied creative writing with Texas novelist William Humphrey, was named John Bard Scholar in his sophomore year and received the Wilton E. Lockwood Award for Literature upon graduation. In later years he received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters. He attended graduate school at Columbia University where he majored in 18th century English Literature.

Yellen's first play was New Gods For Lovers, which was produced at the HB Playhouse in New York. This play, entered in a playwrighting competition, won the Hallmark Award, and he began to write television drama for the Hallmark Hall of Fame, and for NBC television, creating such shows as A Cry of Angels, Beauty and the Beast (Emmy nomination and Christopher Award) and the breakthrough drama about AIDS, An Early Frost (Emmy Award).

His American Civil War television drama, Day Before Battle, was written in collaboration with his friend, playwright Peter Stone, and appeared on Studio One. He went on to write notable adaptations of such literary classics as Great Expectations, Dr.Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Phantom of the Opera and The Last Giraffe - a contemporary show about the Rothschilds giraffe, as well as the PBS series The Adams Chronicles (Emmy Award).

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