Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (pronounced ); November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter, who, with
Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for
Citizen Kane (1941). Earlier, he was the Berlin correspondent for the
Chicago Tribune and the drama critic for
The New York Times and
The New Yorker.
Alexander Woollcott said that Herman Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York". Both Mankiewicz and Welles received Academy Awards for their screenplay.