Mona simpson author biography outlines
Mona Simpson was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, then moved to Los Angeles as a young teenager..
Readers of Mona Simpson's powerful, nakedly autobiographical novels can pick up the thread of her life without ever speaking a word to her.Mona Simpson
American novelist (born 1957)
This article is about the novelist Mona Simpson. For the Simpsons character named after her, see Mona Simpson (The Simpsons).
Mona Simpson (néeJandali; June 14, 1957)[1][2] is an American novelist.
She has written six novels and studied English at University of California, Berkeley, and languages and literature at Columbia University.[3][4] She won a Whiting Award for her first novel, Anywhere but Here (1986).
It was a popular success and adapted as a film by the same name, released in 1999.
Like many of the characters in Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson grew up in Los Angeles.
She wrote a sequel, The Lost Father (1992). Critical recognition has included the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and making the shortlist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Off Keck Road (2000).
She is the biological younger sister of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
She was born after her parents had married and did not meet Jobs, who was placed for adoption after he was born, until