Are both Lydia Davis and Neil Simon playwrights?
Lydia Davis Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American writer noted for literary works of extreme brevity (commonly called "flash fiction"). Davis is also a short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including "Swann’s Way" by Marcel Proust and "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert.
Neil Landau Neil Landau is an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director. His film and television credits include the teen comedy "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead", "Melrose Place", "The Magnificent Seven", "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "The Secret World of Alex Mack" and MTV's "Undressed". He has developed numerous one-hour drama TV pilots for several studios and networks including Warner Bros., Touchstone, CBS, ABC Family, and Lifetime, and has written movies for Universal Pictures, Disney, Columbia Pictures, and 20th Century Fox.