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 advanced York University briefly (1944-45) and the University of Denver (1945-46) before connectedness the United States Army where he began his piece of writing career working for the Army multitude newspaper. After being discharged from the army, Simon returned to tonic York and took a job as a mailroom clerk for Warner Brothers East Coast office.He and his brother Danny began writing comedy revues and at last found their way into radio, then television. Simon sure several Emmy Award nominations for his television writing, then moved on to the stage where he quickly established himself as Americas about successful commercial twistwright by creating an unpar wholeeled string of Broadway hits beginning with practice B showtime Your Horn. During the 1966-67 seasons, Barefoot in the Park, The unusual Couple, Sweet Charity and The Star gleam Girl were all running simultaneously.In 1973, following the death of his wife, Simon reached a low point in his career with devil failures The Good Doctor (1973) and Gods Favorite (1976). A move to atomic number 20, however, reinvigorated him and he produced a much more successful touch later that year in California Suite. After marrying actress Marsha Mason, Simon went on to write Chapter ii (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 beside three plays (I Ought to Be in Pictures, Fools and a revised version of Little Me) all proved unsuccessful at the boxful 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 champion was in 2006 for American humor.