Inherit the Wind was a play written in 1979 by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee The play is fiction but was based on an actual trial The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 The defense attorney in the play Henry Drummond portrayed the historical person Clarence Darrow In the play Henry Drummond was a well known attorney that was un liked because his defense had freed two young boys accused of murder Drummond believed in the idea of freedom of beliefs He came to Tennessee to defend the rights of this be