Neil Simon Profiled on 'CBS Sunday Morning,' 10/29

Neil Simon will be featured on "CBS Sunday Morning" this Sunday, October 29.

The show airs 9 – 10:30 AM ET (check local listings).  Rita Braver will interview Simon for the CBS profile.

Simon is often considered America's most prolific playwright, with 32 plays to his credit.  His career began in 1961 with Come Blow Your Horn and went on to include Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues (Tony Award), Broadway Bound, Rumors, Lost in Yonkers (Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award), and The Dinner Party, among others. "

He has been rewarded with more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer, and is the only playwright to have four Broadway productions running simultaneously.  His plays have been produced in dozens of languages, and have been blockbuster hits from Beijing to Moscow.  Simon is the recipient of three Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a Drama Desk Award, an American Comedy Award, a Golden Globe, and the Kennedy Center Honors.  Earlier this month, he received the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be broadcast on PBS on November 20.