Lucille Fletcher

Lucille Fletcher
Fletcher in 1963
Born	Violet Lucille Fletcher (1912-03-28)March 28, 1912 New York City, U.S.
Died	August 31, 2000(2000-08-31) (aged 88) Langhorne, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Vassar College
Occupation	Writer
Known for	The Hitch-Hiker Sorry, Wrong Number
Spouses	Bernard Herrmann ​ ​ (m. 1939; div. 1948)​ John Douglass Wallop III ​ ​ (m. 1949; died 1985)​
Children	2

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 name. Married to composer Bernard Herrmann in 1939, she wrote the libretto for his opera Wuthering Heights, which he began in 1943 and completed in 1951, after their divorce.