Mona Simpson, author portrait
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Mona Simpson

MONA SIMPSON is the best-selling author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, and Casebook. Off Keck Road was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune. She has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers’ Award, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is on the faculty at UCLA and also teaches at Bard College. In 2020, she was named publisher of The Paris Review. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Commitment
Steps
Casebook
My Hollywood
Off Keck Road
A Regular Guy
The Lost Father
Anywhere but Here

Books

Commitment
Steps
Casebook
My Hollywood
Off Keck Road
A Regular Guy
The Lost Father
Anywhere but Here

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