The Play Goes On: A Memoir

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America's most popular playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winner Neil Simon recounts the sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching moments of his personal and professional life in this engaging second volume of his memoirs. Picking up where the highly praised REWRITES ended, Neil Simon presents the second act of the comedy-drama of his own life. THE PLAY GOES ON takes readers from the mid-1970s to the present, a period during which Simon wrote some of his best and most critically acclaimed plays, including THE BRIGHTON BEACH trilogy and LOST IN YONKERS, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for drama. For many years, Simon's pleasure at achieving enormous public success was overshadowed by his personal grief over the death of his first wife. THE PLAY GOES ON opens with the new life Simon embarked on when he married actress Marcia Mason and moved to California. In his familiar style, a mixture of humour and poignancy, Simon describes his life with Mason, their eventual divorce, and his remarriages (twice) to another woman.

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Curt Schleier Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A brilliant and honest look at what makes Simon tick. Booklist Warm, open, and highly readable...[Simon] is a born wordsmith, and his rich, rare, wise memoir is as enjoyable as a good novel. Publishers Weekly Exhilarating...Simon is a superb and introspective raconteur.

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America's most prolific and beloved playwright, Neil Simon is the author of more than two dozen plays and screenplays. In 1990, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the winner of three Tony Awards. Simon splits his time between New York and Los Angeles.