Jo Swerling

Jo Swerling. Writer: It's a Wonderful Life. Oscar-nominated Hollywood screenwriter Jo Swerling, who also was a Tony Award-winning Broadway writer and lyricist, was born in Berdichev, Ukraine in what was then the Russian Empire. His family emigrated from Czarist Russia and he grew up on the Lower East Side in New York City. From a youthful job peddling newspapers, he worked his way up to becoming a journalist, working on newspapers...