Mona Simpson

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Mona Simpson, 2014

Mona Simpson , b. Jandali, (born June 14, 1957 in Green Bay , Wisconsin ) is an American novelist and essayist .

Life

Mona Simpson is the daughter of the American Joanne Carole Simpson (née Schieble) and the Syrian political scientist Abdulfattah Jandali. She is also the younger biological sister of Steve Jobs , the co-founder of Apple Computer . Jobs was put up for adoption as a child because his parents were not married when he was born. The two siblings first met when they were long grown up.

At UC Berkeley she studied with Thom Gunn and Seamus Heaney, among others . After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California in 1979 , she attended Columbia University . During this time she worked for The Paris Review and Cosmopolitan magazines .

Her first novel, published under the title Anywhere But Here , she began as a student at Columbia University. This tells the story of a rather problematic relationship between a mother and her daughter and became a celebrated bestseller when it was published by Knopf in 1986 . In 1999, the film adaptation of the same name by Wayne Wang was released .

The first novel was followed by The Lost Father and A Regular Guy . The latter can be viewed as a fictional portrait of her brother Steve. After the novella Off Keck Road , the novel My Hollywood was published in 2010 .

In 2020 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Works

  • Anywhere But Here . Knopf, New York 1986
    • German editions: Bel Air . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1989; Everywhere, just not here . Goldmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-44433-0
  • The Lost Father . Knopf, New York 1991
  • A regular guy . Knopf, New York 1996
    • German editions: A made man . Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1998; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14785-9
  • Off Keck Road . Knopf, New York 2000
  • My hollywood . Knopf, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-307-27352-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2020 newly elected members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Simpson, Mona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Green Bay , Wisconsin