“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” —Cyril Connolly Ü Norman Barasch is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter, producer, and playwright known for his Broadway plays and a career spent writing for television shows including The Danny Kaye Show, Rhoda, and Fish. Barasch began his career in 1942 at NBC, where, while working as a page, he recalls writing two scripts on spec and handing them to the head of the network, who paid him $45 apiece. He went on to write for radio, stage, and more than 19 different sitcoms. Among his biggest hits were his two Broadway plays, Make a Million, which debuted in 1958, and Send Me No Flowers, which debuted in 1960 and was later adapted…
