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 Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon was born in the
Bronx on July 4, 1927
During the course of his career,
Simon has won three Tony Awards for Best Play (The Odd Couple,
Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers.) He has had more plays adapted
to film than any other American playwright and, in addition, has
written nearly a dozen original screenplays himself.
He received Academy Award nominations
for his screenplays The Odd Couple (1968), The Sunshine Boys (1975)
and California Suite (1978). He has also been the recipient of
the Antoinette Perry Award, the Writers Guild Award, the Evening
Standard Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Shubert
Award, the Outer Circle Award, and a 1978 Golden Globe Award for
his screenplay, The Goodbye Girl.
Neil Simon's first autobiographical
work, Rewrites [1996], ended with the death of his first wife
Joan after 20 years of marriage. His latest book, The Play Goes
On, which continues to the present.
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