Mona Simpson
Novelist, Author
1957 –
Who is Mona Simpson?
Mona E. Simpson is an American author. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College. She won the Whiting Prize for her first novel, Anywhere but Here. It was a popular success and adapted as a film by the same name, released in 1999. She then wrote a sequel for it, The Lost Father in 1992. Her novel Off Keck Road won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
She is also the biological younger sister of the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, whom she did not meet until she was 25 years old.
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- Born
- Jun 14, 1957
Green Bay - Also known as
- Mona E. Simpson
- Mona Jandali
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Richard Appel
(1993 - )
- Richard Appel
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Syrian American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University
Writing
( - 1983) - Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Creative writing
( - 1979) - Beverly Hills High School
- Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University
- Lived in
- Santa Monica
- Green Bay
(1957/06/14 - )
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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