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Mona Simpson


USA flag (b.1957)

Mona Simpson was born to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, political science professor Abdulfattah John Jandali. She is the younger sister of Steve Jobs, co-founder and current CEO of Apple. Because Jobs was placed for adoption as a baby by their then-unmarried parents, she first met her sibling as an adult. She later took her stepfather's surname, Simpson.She attended the University of California at Berkeley.Having received her B.A. in English from Berkeley in 1979, she attended Columbia University where she received an M.F.A. She worked for Paris Review during this period.She currently lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband Richard Appel and their two children. Appel, a writer for The Simpsons, used his wife's name for Homer Simpson's mother, beginning with the episode "Mother Simpson".
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Anywhere But Here (1986)
   The Lost Father (1992)
   A Regular Guy (1996)
   My Hollywood (2010)
   Casebook (2014)
   Commitment (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Off Keck Road (2000)
   Steps (2017)
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Search (2022)
Michelle Huneven
"In Search, Michelle Huneven invents the novel-with-recipes and takes on the eternal committee. With wry humor and keen moral nerve, she brings us deep into a group formed not by affinity but with a purpose--to select a new leader. We follow the hilarious, absorbing, shocking step by step of how and why intelligent, good-minded people make an entirely surprising decision. With echoes of voices as disparate as those of Thomas McGuane and Barbara Pym, Huneven is an American original, attentive to the outscale beauties of the west and the fragility of its citizens and institutions."
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Joan is Okay (2022)
Weike Wang
"Joan Is Okay charts the internal story of the mythic immigrant success narrative in a tragicomedy about the costs of generational betterment."
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Fraternity (2020)
Benjamin Nugent
"This striking, intimate book is not what it seems. Very funny, and ostensibly about Greek life, with its Kappas, Deltas, disgusting kitchens, and pregaming, it holds at its center a small bomb of realism. Here we have the terror of privileged young people facing uncertain financial futures who find themselves involved with other young people unsheltered by college and all its mythologies. Strangely - for a collection called Fraternity - it is the young women who shimmer in recollection."

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Anthologies containing stories by Mona Simpson
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The Best American Short Stories 2019 (2019)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Anthony Doerr
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2001) : Off Keck Road


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