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Neil Simon
American playwright, writer, and academic
1927 – 2018aged 91
One of Broadway's most prolific and successful playwrights, writing more than 30 plays — including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple — plus nearly as many film screenplays, most adapted from his own stage work. He won three Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, and the Kennedy Center Honors, and got his start in the writers' room of Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen. His 1961 debut, Come Blow Your Horn, took three years to write and ran for 678 performances on Broadway.