Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, and grew up in Washington Heights at the northern tip of Manhattan. He attended wise York University briefly (1944-45) and the University of capital of Colorado (1945-46) before joining the United States Army where he began his writing occupational group working for the Army camp newspaper. After being discharged from the army, Simon returned to New York and took a job as a mailroom clerk for Warner Brothers East brink office.He and his brother Danny began writing comedy revues and eventually found their track into radio, then television. Simon received several Emmy Award nominations for his television writing, then go on to the stage where he quickly established himself as Americas about successful commercial playwright by creating an unparalleled string of Broadway hits inception with Come Blow Your Horn. During the 1966-67 seasons, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet kindness and The Star Spangled Girl were all running sim ultaneously.In 1973, following(a) the death of his wife, Simon reached a low point in his career with 2 failures The Good Doctor (1973) and Gods Favorite (1976). A move to California, however, reinvigorated him and he produced a much more successful play later that year in California Suite. After marrying actress Marsha Mason, Simon went on to write Chapter Two (1977) which was considered by many critics to be his finest play to that date.His fourth musical, Theyre Playing Our Song, proved plum successful in 1979, but his next three plays (I Ought to Be in Pictures, Fools and a revised version of Little Me) all proved thwarted at the box office. During the course of his career, Simon has received around 27 awards. He got his first award in 1957 for your show of show and his latest whizz was in 2006 for American humor.