Tony Award for Best Author of a Musical

Tony Award for Best Author
Awarded for	Best Author
Location	United States New York City
Country	United States of America
Presented by	American Theatre Wing The Broadway League
Currently held by	Neil Simon for The Odd Couple and Joseph Stein for Fiddler on the Roof (1965)
Official website	TonyAwards.com

The Tony Award for Best Author is a now retired category once presented to playwrights, authors and librettists of theatrical plays and musicals. Only eight awards were presented from 1947 to 1965, and is often grouped with the category Best Book of a Musical.