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Lucille Fletcher (March 28, 1912 — August 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her full name was Violet Lucille Fletcher. Her credits include the story "The Hitch Hiker," which was turned into a radio drama by Orson Welles, a memorable Twilight Zone episode called "The Hitch-Hiker" and more recently inspired "Roadkill", an episode of Supernatural. Fletcher also wrote the screenplay for the film noir suspense thriller Sorry, Wrong Number, which was an expanded version of her 30-minute radio drama script. Fletcher was born in Brooklyn in 1912 to parents... MORE

Lucille Fletcher (March 28, 1912 — August 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her full name was Violet Lucille Fletcher. Her credits include the story "The Hitch Hiker," which was turned into a radio drama by Orson Welles, a memorable Twilight Zone episode called "The Hitch-Hiker" and more recently inspired "Roadkill", an episode of Supernatural. Fletcher also wrote the screenplay for the film noir suspense thriller Sorry, Wrong Number, which was an expanded version of her 30-minute radio drama script. Fletcher was born in Brooklyn in 1912 to parents Matthew and Violet Fletcher. She attended Vassar College, where she earned a degree in 1933. After her graduation from Vassar, Lucille Fletcher got a clerical job at CBS, where she met her future husband, composer Bernard Herrmann. The couple dated for five years, but delayed marriage due to her parents' objections. They finally married on October 2, 1939. Fletcher and Herrmann collaborated on several projects. He wrote the score for the November 17, 1941, radio presentation of her famous story "The Hitch Hiker" on the Orson Welles Show. As Fletcher once explained in an interview, Sorry, Wrong Number LESS