In my early thirties, I experienced my first, fleeting brush with success. (To call it my first erroneously implies others followed.) I was ill prepared for the trappings that come with being a playwright in New York: the glittering dinners, the caviar nights, the Benzedrine days, and, of course, the press. To compensate, I created a persona, “Nicky Silver.”

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