Mona Simpson

MONA SIMPSON is the author of Anywhere But Here , The Lost Father , A Regular Guy , Off Keck Road , My Hollywood , and Casebook . She has received a Whiting Writer's award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, an NEA fellowship, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Prize, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Mary McCarthy Prize. Off Keck Road was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune . She was recently elected...See more

MONA SIMPSON is the author of Anywhere But Here , The Lost Father , A Regular Guy , Off Keck Road , My Hollywood , and Casebook . She has received a Whiting Writer's award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, an NEA fellowship, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila Wallace Prize, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Mary McCarthy Prize. Off Keck Road was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize from the Chicago Tribune . She was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the publisher of The Paris Review , where she worked as an editor in her twenties. She lives in Santa Monica, California. She's on the faculty at UCLA, where she often teaches Middlemarch . See less