Neil Simon knew that many academics and critics never would rank him among the great American playwrights. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, who died Sunday morning at 91, addressed this ...

Neil Simon, the playwright and screenwriter whose indestructible comedies – including “The Odd Couple,” “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Sunshine Boys” and “Brighton Beach Memoirs ...

Simon kept theater audiences laughing for decades. Starting in the early 1960s, his comedies set a Broadway standard. Audiences loved his work but it took a long time for him to gain critical respect.

Neil Simon's best comedy looks homeward. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. ... above all too risky—too distant from the machine-gun wisecracks that audiences expected of a Neil Simon play.

Neil Simon ended up quitting the mailroom job when the pair got jobs with a radio comedy. In 1950, ... his works dismissed as joke machines. And certainly he was funny, ...

Neil Simon, the playwright whose name was synonymous with Broadway comedy and commercial success in the theater for decades, and who helped redefine popular American humor with an emphasis on the ...

Neil Simon, the playwright whose name was synonymous with Broadway comedy and commercial success in the theater for decades, and who helped redefine popular American humor with an emphasis on the ...