After mustering out of the Army as a corporal, Neil rejoined Danny, and they began writing for radio and television. In the early 1950s, the Simon brothers wrote for Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of ...

Neil Simon, the playwright and screenwriter whose ... Neil continued pursuing the craft while in the US Army Air Force Reserve and attending college at NYU and the University of Denver.

Neil Simon, one of the rare late-20th century playwrights who was a brand name for plays such as “The Odd Couple” and “Barefoot in the Park,” died Sunday. He was 91. A statement from his ...

Neil Simon, the pioneering playwright ... It made me strong as an independent person.” Simon began writing after he signed up with the Army Air Force Reserve at New York University.

Born Marvin Neil Simon, his plays often chronicled a stormy childhood, his five marriages and a stint in the Army. He had his biggest hit in 1965 with The Odd Couple, about a pair of mismatched ...

makes his way from childhood to the U.S. Army to finally, on the verge of adulthood, a budding career as a writer. Simon was born Marvin Neil Simon in New York and was raised in the Bronx and ...

NEW YORK — When master playwright Neil Simon accepted ... In them, Simon’s alter ego, Eugene Morris Jerome, makes his way from childhood to the U.S. Army to finally, on the verge of adulthood ...

Neil Simon was one of Broadway’s most ... “Biloxi Blues,” part two of the trilogy, was based on Simon’s own stint in the Army, and won him his first Tony award for best play in 1985.

makes his way from childhood to the U.S. Army to finally, on the verge of adulthood, a budding career as a writer. Simon was born Marvin Neil Simon in New York and was raised in the Bronx and ...

Playwright Neil Simon died Sunday at 91 ... and covering it up with a humorous attitude,” he once said. Simon entered an Army Air Force Reserve training program after graduating from the ...

makes his way from childhood to the U.S. Army to finally, on the verge of adulthood, a budding career as a writer. Simon was born Marvin Neil Simon in New York and was raised in the Bronx and ...