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	Mona Simpson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mona Simpson (born June 14, 1957 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a novelist and essayist.
		Although Mona Simpson's books are presented as works of fiction, she draws deeply upon personal experience to the point where large portions of her novels are transparently autobiographical.
		Mona Simpson is also a contributor to anthologies and essay collections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mona_Simpson_(novelist) (335 words)

	Mona Simpson (The Simpsons) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mother of Homer J. Simpson and estranged wife of Abraham Simpson, she is currently voiced by Glenn Close and has gone by a variety of names over the years, including Penelope Olsen, Mona Stevens, Martha Stewart, Muddy Mae Suggins, and Anita Bonghit.
		While Mona's whereabouts were unknown for most of her life, it was later revealed that for several years she resided at a hippie commune where she painted a mural dedicated to her son Homer.
		The Simpsons • The Flanders • The Van Houtens • The Wiggums • The Bouviers
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mona_(The_Simpsons) (1001 words)

	'Off Keck Road' by Mona Simpson
		Simpson also recognizes that these economic shifts create upheavals in values as religion weakens, divorce increases and family homesteads go to ruin under the ownership of two-income couples with neither the time nor the inclination to keep them beautiful.
		Simpson’s characters fare slightly better, but they too are presented with frustrating concision.
		Again and again, Simpson curtails these complicated and engrossing relationships with a pared style and third-person presentation that keeps too tight a rein on emotional currents and reduces the characters’ powerful symphony of desire or dread to a weak assortment of notes.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20010114review663.asp (540 words)

	UCLA Today: A writer who knows writers
		English Professor and novelist Mona Simpson brings her famous friends to UCLA in a popular writers' series.
		After returning to Los Angeles, the town where she grew up, acclaimed novelist Mona Simpson found that she stayed in touch with writers she’d met at writers’ colonies in picturesque New England, her job at “The Paris Review,”; at parties full of young editors and waiters with aspirations and, yes, college.
		Simpson, who taught at Bard, Columbia and NYU before joining UCLA in 2001, conceived the series during her first year on campus, when she noticed her students got “very excited” when she suggested inviting such friends as Christina Garcia (“Dreaming in Cuban”) and Michelle Huneven (“Jamesland”) to campus.
	www.today.ucla.edu /2004/041123people_writer.html (511 words)

	Communications and Public Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mona Simpson will discuss her novel Anywhere But Here on Oct. 2 at 12:15 p.m.
		Simpson’s novel, made into a movie starring Natalie Portman in 1999, was chosen for "The Book," an annual program designed for first-year students.
		Simpson, a Santa Monica resident, holds the Sadie Samuelson Levy Chair of Languages and Literature at Bard College in New York.
	www.lmu.edu /publicrelations/lmunewssept24.htm (2375 words)

	Mona Simpson's Books That Made A Difference
		The books novelist Mona Simpson cherishes offer mystery, grounding, and the pure high of happiness.
		Reading—not occasionally, not only on vacation but every day—gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways, as each of these eight books has done.
		Mona Simpson is the author of the novels A Regular Guy and Off Keck Road.
	www.oprah.com /obc/omag/obc_omag_200205_books.jhtml (313 words)

	Creating Jobs: Apple's Founder Goes Home Again
		When Jobs found Mona Simpson, a sister who had grown up in entirely different circumstances, it was as if they had been part of some nature-versus- nurture experiment.
		Simpson and Jobs decline to discuss the circumstances that led their biological parents to put Steve up for adoption.
		Simpson's novels tend to be populated by eccentric mothers and absent fathers (her second book is "The Lost Father"); her parents separated when she was 10, and she moved to Los Angeles with her mother as a teen-ager.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/011897jobs.html (4765 words)

	Simpson
		Simpson is the name of some places in the United States of America including
		Simpson is also the name of a place in the United Kingdom
		In Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day (filmed as Topkapi), the protagonist's name is Arthur Abdel Simpson (played by Peter Ustinov in the movie).
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/s/si/simpson.html (144 words)

	Outline of American Literature
		Famed science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler (l947-), from California, draws on the theme of bondage and the slave narrative tradition in Wild Seed (l980); her Parable of the Sower (l993) treats addiction.
		The lost kingdom is a large family farm held for four generations, and the forces that undermine it are a concatenation of the personal and the political.
		African-American novelist Charles Johnson (1948-), an ex-cartoonist who was born in Illinois and moved to Seattle, Washington, draws on disparate traditions such as Zen and the slave narrative in novels such as Oxherding Tale (1982).
	usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/oal/lit10.htm (8896 words)

	Steve Jobs
		He is also regarded as a pioneer in computing for seeing the potential in a Xerox PARC demonstration of the GUI and mouse, thus causing Apple Computer to unleash the Apple Macintosh.
		Born to Joanne and (?) Simpson (his biological sister is the novelist Mona Simpson), Steve was adopted soon after birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California.
		After graduating from Homestead High School[?] in Cupertino, California, in 1972 Jobs enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he dropped out after one semester.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Steve_Jobs.html (294 words)

	Mona Simpson Interview with Don Swaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Astonishingly, novelist Mona Simpson never knew until she was an adult she was the sister of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple computer.
		It took years for Steve and Mona to discover their relationship (a story in itself).
		In a 1992 CBS Wired for Books interview, Mona alludes to Steve, and had I (Don Swaim) been aware of the connection between these two brilliant people -- their relationship unknown to me at the time -- I would have developed it.
	wiredforbooks.org /monasimpson (220 words)

	Ontario Empoblog
		His identity was outed, albeit obscurely, by Jobsâ sister, Mona Simpson, the critically-acclaimed, best-selling novelist.
		She was born two and a half years after Jobs to the same parents, who chose to keep and raise their second child.
		Mona Simpson was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1957; when she was ten, her parents separated and she moved with her mother to California....
	oemperor.blogspot.com /2006/10/adoption-reed-college-nurture-and.html (1866 words)

	Hugh Hart > New York Times > Article
		Richard Appel graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for Judge John Walker at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and prosecuted criminals for three years at the United States attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.
		Appel quit his job and moved here with his wife, the novelist Mona Simpson, and their infant son.
		Appel is convinced that won't be a problem, noting that Judge Walker, his former boss, has already pitched him some true-life tales populated by genuine courthouse characters.
	home.pacbell.net /hmhart/stories/nytimes-ausa.htm (915 words)

	Devin K Grayson - Case Notes - Biography
		It was there that I first decided to hang up my comedy and tragedy masks in favor of wielding the mighty pen (I wish I could say I came to this conclusion in the midst of a fiction class, but, oh wellcheating on sociology papers will have to do).
		I began taking graduate writing classes at the University of California at Berkeley (most notably with novelist Brian Bouldrey, who has earned my eternal gratitude with his unflagging support and friendship), but being a creature of my age, it was, of course, television that changed my life.
		I’ve told this part of the story many times now, but the gist of it is that Alyssa and I were channel surfing one day when we caught an episode of the then brand-new Batman: The Animated Series.
	www.devingrayson.com /biography.html (820 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror
		Raymond Chandler, great American novelist and screenwriter, lived for a time on San Vicente and many of his works were set in Santa Monica (ask Bay City).
		Renowned novelist Christopher Isherwood was born in England, but lived and wrote here for decades, and died here.
		These people and their distinguished contemporaries are as vital a part of Santa Monica as the ocean, the beach and the historically significant buildings, and it’s time that they, their works and lives were chronicled and arranged in a coherent and accessible form.
	www.smmirror.com /MainPages/DisplayArticleDetails.asp?eid=1873 (1093 words)

	Harvard Divinity Bulletin - Will Joyner - Truth(s) in Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The book is, for him, a worthy accomplishment as poetic expression in the tradition of Herbert and Donne, or as inspired, metaphysical, bounds-crossing prose in the tradition of Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville.
		Clearly not as comfortable as Wood with religious language or a religious stance, she is very bothered that she can't finally consider Gilead truly a novel, especially so in comparison with Housekeeping.
		Like Simpson, Lee Siegel, writing in New York, praises Robinson's prose, but finds the characters in Gilead too good, too loving and forgiving, to be believable.
	www.hds.harvard.edu /news/bulletin_mag/articles/33-1_joyner.html (1504 words)

	OFF KECK ROAD :: Mona Simpson, reviewed by Pamela Malone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		What struck me by the description of this book was that it sounded very much like the subject matter traversed so often by my favorite contemporary English novelist, Anita Brookner.
		Simpson is. She wrote the brilliant short story, “Lawns” which was anthologized in all the best of the year collections when it came out.
		Simpson writes with deep insight and infuses what might appear on the outside to be dull subject matter, with real meaning.
	www.geocities.com /wingsmag2002/Archives/KECKREVIEW.HTM (611 words)

	Reviews - Business 2.0, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Fast Company, Boolist, the New York Post, George, ...
		The temper tantrums, the funny diets, the aesthetic obsessions -- even Jobs' sister, Simpson, and her book -- are all in Deutschman's bio, which names names, places and describes events fictionalized for the novel.
		If Jobs, as Deutschman asserts, distanced himself from his sister, novelist Mona Simpson, after she wrote a novel in which the principal character was a thinly veiled and highly recognizable Jobs, it is unlikely that Jobs would think kindly of a biographer who revealed more about him than he wants the world to know.
		"Mona revealed that the book had ended her close relationship with Steve," Deutschman writes.
	www.alandeutschman.com /Reviews_Jobs.htm (8178 words)

	Steve Jobs Biography
		He is also regarded as a pioneer in computing for seeing the potential in a Xerox PARC demonstration of the GUI and mouse, thus causing Apple Computer to unleash the Apple Lisa and later, the Apple Macintosh.
		Born to Joanne Simpson and an Egyptian Arab father (name not known).
		His biological parents later married and gave birth to Jobs' sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.
	www.the-planets.com /star-biography/Steve_Jobs_Biography.htm (3247 words)

	_The Atlantic_ moves to the Pacific...
		I think you already see L.A.'s influence in his taste for smart but accessible writers and in a broader sense of what is culturally relevant than you usually find among literary editors." (One recent issue, for example, had an essay on the phenomenon of the sexless marriage by Los Angeles-based contributing editor Caitlin Flanagan.
		An upcoming issue will contain a reflection on Lucille Ball by bestselling novelist Mona Simpson, and on Hollywood and politics by Marc Cooper.) For Schwarz, the move represents something of a homecoming.
		After completing his academic training, he worked as an analyst for the Brookings Institution and then, for eight years, at the Santa Monica-based Rand Corp., where he produced studies of the El Salvadoran civil war, Chinese military modernization and terrorism.
	www.xent.com /pipermail/fork/2003-July/023505.html (904 words)

	An Eye for Danger
		Stone, who lives in nearby Westport, has just completed a new book, "Outerbridge Reach," which takes as its central plot a solo sailor's attempt to circumnavigate the globe, and Kirby was an early reader of the manuscript, an adviser on technical matters.
		Both by literary ambition and literary reputation, Stone is a big novelist, the kind of writer that other novelists admire, that serious critics take seriously, whose books win prizes and comparisons to the classics.
		The reference, of course, is to Tom Wolfe's famous new-journalism foray into the world of the novelist and social renegade Ken Kesey, whose collection of cohorts, hippie precursors, became known as the Merry Pranksters and were the noisiest, if not the first, advocates of LSD and other mind-expanding drugs.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/04/26/specials/stone-danger.html (4784 words)

	Bio - Steve Jobs Wikipedia Steve Jobs
		Born to Jhanne Simpson and an Egyptian Arab father (name unknown) in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Steven Paul was adopted soon after birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California.
		His biological sister is the novelist Mona Simpson.
		In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but he dropped out after one semester.
	www.blinkbits.com /bits/viewtopic/steve_jobs_wikipedia?t=323686 (3167 words)

	USC Trojan Family Magazine - Spring 2000: What's New: A Salon for L.A. Intellignetsia
		Stephanie Barron, LACMA’s senior curator of modern and contemporary art, whispered at a table with Kenneth S. Brecher, the executive director of the Sundance Institute.
		Novelist Mona Simpson (Anywhere But Here) fretted over the fate of the American magazine with USC creative writing professor Carol Muske-Dukes (An Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected Poems) and writer-performer Sandra Tsing Loh (Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays From Lesser Los Angeles).
		Institute for the Humanities – which meets the first and third Friday of the month – is modeled on New York’s Institute of the Humanities, founded roughly 25 years ago by a group of East Coast intellectuals, including Susan Sontag.
	www.usc.edu /dept/pubrel/trojan_family/spring00/whatsnew/wn_salon.html (613 words)

	Arab-American Writers, Uneasy in Two Worlds
		In "Fawzi in Jerusalem" the Assyrian-Lebanese novelist and poet Sam Hazo describes the immigrant's journey: "Leaving a world too old to name/and too undying to forsake,/I flew the cold, expensive sea/toward Columbus' mistake/where life could never be the same."
		The novelist Vance Bourjaily, who is half Lebanese and the former head of the Iowa Writers Workshop, has seldom written on Arab themes, though in "Confessions of a Spent Youth," his autobiographical novel, Mr.
		The novelist Mona Simpson is half Syrian, half American, but writes about Arabness only indirectly.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/duboisbk10.htm (1628 words)

	The Chronicle: 9/13/2002: The Domestic Verses of Salman Rushdie
		Salman Rushdie's new place in New York is vacant but for the books stacked in columns that cover every inch of floor space in a room lined with dark library shelves from another century.
		It's the first time in months that the novelist's 5,000 books have been gathered in one room, at his disposal.
		We do make homes, he contends, but only in places like Oz, the dreamed-of city, "which is anywhere, and everywhere, except the place from which we began." So home becomes (to warp the words of the novelist Mona Simpson) anywhere but back there.
	chronicle.com /free/v49/i03/03b00701.htm (4184 words)

	Mona Simpson Summary
		In the following essay, based on an interview with Simpson, Bing provides an overview of Simpson's life and writing, and shares Simpson's comments about her work.
		In the following interview, Simpson discusses the themes and characters of Off Keck Road
		Get the complete Mona Simpson Summary Pack, which includes everything on this page.
	www.bookrags.com /Mona_Simpson (152 words)

	New Tools for Fiction Readers at Lane Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NoveList, a new online service available at Lane Library, will help answer that question.
		Then click “Databases,” then “NoveList.” This database of over 100,000 books is searchable by author, title, series name, or even just words describing the plot.
		For new ideas, NoveList gives you the prize-winning novels from each year in many genres.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /library/news/old/novelist.htm (253 words)

	Spotlight On: San Diego
		Curated by noted poet and teacher Quincy Troupe and now in its eighth season, the annual series of spring events meld literature and music in an artistic conversation that exemplifies the best of a multicultural approach to programming.
		During this season, for instance, the African-American vocal duo of Vincent Henry and Stephanie McKay is joined with Indian-American novelist Bharati Mukherjee and Japanese-American poet Lawson Inada.
		Troupe's catholic tastes often result in surprising juxtapositions (distinguished fiction writer Grace Paley with the San Diego performance poet group the Taco Shop Poets, Nobel-winning poet Derek Walcott with novelist Mona Simpson) and an exciting new vision of how different disciplines speak to and through one another.
	www.calacapress.com /reviews/cppwarticle.html (873 words)

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