When master playwright Neil Simon accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006, he was visibly nervous. Many of his plays were adapted into movies and one, "The Odd Couple," even became a popular television series. "If you write comedy, if you write period, you learned something from Neil Simon," Singer said. Kristoffer Diaz, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, took to Twitter to remember an icon: "In a different life, I would have loved to have been my generation's Neil Simon. "It was my great good fortune that my very first Broadway play was written by Neil Simon.

Source: ABC News August 26, 2018 19:41 UTC