Lewis Herman

Lewis Helmar Herman was a multifaceted writer, director, and playwright known for his works on screenwriting and dialects, including *A Practical Manual of Screen Playwriting* (1952) and *American Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors and Writers* (1959). He worked in Hollywood writing screenplays during the 1940s and headed the United States Army’s motion picture center in New York City, at the Army Pictorial Center in Astoria, from around 1952 to 1958. Little is known about the later decades of his life, as records trail off after that period.[2][3][8]