With plays such as I'm Not Rappaport, A Thousand Clowns, and The Goodbye People, Herb Gardner has become an admired and internationally successful writer of plays and screenplays.

His latest and perhaps his best work, Conversation With My Father, "is a play about a father and his sons, about the nature of being Jewish, about survival and disaster. But it's not at all narrow; by being specific, it's also universal.

As a result, this layered, beautifully crafted play is about all those fathers who came to New York from terrible places, and all the sons who had to learn the sometimes dark and dreadful lessons about becoming Americans....It's an entertainment, a drama of wit and intelligence that gets to your head by way of the belly" (from the Introduction by Pete Hamill).

In recent years, there have been very few times, if any, when a Herb Gardner play is not being performed somewhere in the United States and Europe. His work has been crowned with many honors, and has been performed by such actors as Paul Scofield, Yves Montand, Jason Robards, Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Harris, Judd Hirsch, and Cleavon Little. His previous plays have been widely published and enjoyed.