The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

Less successful was the Lawrence and Lee collaboration with Herman also starring Lansbury Dear World a musical adaptation of Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970) was a Vietnam-era exploration of Thoreau's resistance to an earlier war. Lee Theatre Research Institute a research facility and archive was dedicated in Lawrence and Lee's honor at the Ohio State University in 1986.

Jerome Lawrence (July 14 1915 – February 29 2004) was an American playwright and author.