Neil Simon, Playwright Who Struck Box Office Gold, Dies at 91
- He won Tony awards for ‘The Odd Couple,’ ‘Lost in Yonkers’
- Wrote for Sid Caeser’s TV show with Mel Brooks, Woody Allen
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Neil Simon, whose Broadway plays including “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Odd Couple” and “Lost in Yonkers” made him the most commercially successful playwright of his time while earning him a Pulitzer Prize, has died. He was 91.
The playwright died early Sunday at a New York hospital of complications from pneumonia, the Associated Press reported, citing Bill Evans, spokesman for the Shubert Organization and a longtime friend of Simon’s.