FILE- American playwright Neil Simon appears during an interview in Seattle, Wash., on Sept. 22, 1994. Dozens of notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs owned by the late playwright have been donated to the Library of Congress Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as "The Odd Couple," "Barefoot in the Park" and his "Brighton Beach" trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, died on Aug. 26, 2018 at the age of 91. (AP Photo/Gary Stuart, File)