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.
My Zinc Bed (play) My Zinc Bed is a play by the British playwright David Hare. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2000 and its three characters were played in that production by Tom Wilkinson, Julia Ormond and Steven Mackintosh, with Hare himself directing. It was adapted into a television film in 2008.