NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Cleveland-born writer and humorist Mark O'Donnell died in front of his Manhattan home after going into respiratory arrest, the New York Daily News said.
The Tony Award-winner, who wrote the books for stage musicals based on John Waters' movies "Hairspray" and "Cry-Baby," was 58 when he died Monday morning.
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An autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of his death, but police told the Daily News it was not suspicious.
O'Donnell was a 1976 graduate of Harvard University and a frequent contributor to "The Harvard Lampoon." He also penned the novels "Getting Over Homer" and "Let Nothing You Dismay."
