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Author: Neil Simon
First Published: 1996
Type of Work: Memoir
Time of Work: 1927-1973
Setting: Chiefly New York, Los Angeles, and Europe
Principal Characters: (Marvin) Neil Simon, Joan Baim Simon, Daniel “Danny” Simon, Irving Simon, Mamie Levy Simon
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
Subjects: Wives, Parents and children, Fathers, Creative process, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Comedy
Locales: Europe, New York, Los Angeles, CA

Rewrites: A Memoir traces Neil Simon’s early life and his writing career from the drafts of his first play, Come Blow Your Horn (1960), through the Broadway production of The Sunshine Boys (1972). Originally conceived as a full- length autobiography, this memoir is in many ways a tribute to Simon’s first wife Joan, ending with her death in 1973. (Actress Marsha Mason, his second wife, is identified only as “someone who would eventually play an important part in my life.”) A beautiful, spirited woman, Joan is recalled with unstinting love and admiration....

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