The Play Goes On

A revealing and heartfelt memoir of a Pulitzer Prize–winning artist finding joy and inspiration after tragedy.

In his critically acclaimed Rewrites, Neil Simon talked about his beginnings—his early years of working in television, his first real love, his first play, his first brush with failure, and, most moving of all, his first great loss. Simon's same willingness to open his heart to the reader permeates The Play Goes On.

This second act takes the reader from the mid-1970s to the present,...