Mona Simpson

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

Life

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

At UC Berkeley, she studied with Thom Gunn and Seamus Heaney. After she got in the Department of English awarded in 1979 by the University of California Bachelor of Arts, she attended Columbia University. She worked at that time for the magazines Cosmopolitan and The Paris Review.

Her first novel, which was 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 critically acclaimed bestseller, as in 1986 he appeared in the publishing button.

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

Works

• Anywhere But Here. Knopf, New York 1986 German editions: Bel Air Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg, 1989; Anywhere but here. Goldmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-44433-0

• German edition: The distant father. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-8105-1854-9

• German editions: a made ​​man. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main, 1998; Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-596-14785-9