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'''Neil Simon''' (July 4, 1927 - August 26, 2018) was an [[United States|America]]n playwright and screenwriter. He wrote over thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, most adapted from his plays. He has received more combined [[Academy Award|Oscar]] and Tony nominations than any other writer.

After winning the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for drama in 1991 for ''[[Lost in Yonkers]]'', critics began to take notice of the depths, complexity and issues of universal interest in his stories, which expressed serious concerns of most average people. His comedies were based around subjects such as marital conflict, infidelity, sibling rivalry, adolescence, and fear of aging. Most of his plays were also partly autobiographical, portraying his troubled childhood and different stages of his life, creating characters who were typically New Yorkers and often Jewish, like himself. Simon's facility with dialogue gave his stories a rare blend of realism, humor and seriousness which audiences find easy to identify with.

 

 

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