{"subject_people": ["Neil Simon (Criticism and interpretation)"], "key": "/works/OL6209151W", "title": "Understanding Neil Simon", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1602035A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [1913255], "subjects": ["Criticism and interpretation", "Simon, neil, 1927-2018", "American literature, history and criticism, 20th century"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Widely known as Broadway's king of comedy, Neil Simon has written such popular and critical successes as Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers. In this guide to his work, Susan Koprince provides an overview of Simon's career and in-depth analyses of his major plays.\n\nKoprince suggests that, in addition to - or in spite of - his unmatched commercial success as a writer of comedy, Simon qualifies as a master dramatist of twentieth-century theatre.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T18:45:44.354639"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-15T00:55:23.412897"}}