The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Volume 1: The Odd Couple; Plaza Suite; Barefoot in the Park; Come Blow Your Horn; The Star-Spangled Girl; Last of the Red Hot Lovers; Promises, Promises
Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon comedy or musical has been a rare one.  His first play wasCome Blow Your Horn, followed by the musicalLittle Me.  During the 1966-67 season,Barefoot in the Park,The Odd Couple,Sweet Charity, andThe Star-Spangled Girlwere all running simultaneously; in the 1970-71 season, Broadway theatergoers had their choice ofPlaza Suite,Last of the Red Hot Lovers, andPromises, Promises.  Next cameThe Gingerbread Lady,The Prisoner of Second Avenue,The Sunshine Boys,The Good Doctor,God's Favorite,California Suite,Chapter Two, the musicalThey're Playing Our Song,I Ought to Be in Pictures,Brighton Beach Memoirs(which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of 1983),Biloxi Blues(which won the Tony Award for Best Play of 1985), and the female version ofThe Odd Couple.Mr. Simon began his writing career in television, writingThe Phil Silvers Showand Sid Caesar'sYour Show of Shows.  He has also written the screen adaptations ofBarefoot in the Park,The Odd Couple,Plaza Suite,The Prisoner of Second Avenue,The Sunshine Boys,California Suite,Chapter Two, andI Ought to Be in Pictures.  His original screenplays includeThe Out-of-Towners,The Hearbreak Kid,Murder by Death,The Goodbye Girl,The Cheap Detective,Seems Like Old Times,Only When I Laugh,Max Dugan Returns, andThe Slugger's Wife.  He received the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 forLost in Yonkers.The author lives in California and New York.  He is married to Diane Lander and has three daughters, Ellen, Nancy, and Bryn.