Samuel A. Simon

Sam Simon describes himself as being engaged in his fourth age of life, as a playwright and performer. The lawyer and original Nader's Raider likes to say that this era of his life found him, as did the story of The Actual Dance itself, after his wife was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. He wrote the play, The Actual Dance, which inspired this memoir, in 2012 and began performing in 2013. The play has been performed hundreds of times since then. Both the book and the play are...See more

Sam Simon describes himself as being engaged in his fourth age of life, as a playwright and performer. The lawyer and original Nader's Raider likes to say that this era of his life found him, as did the story of The Actual Dance itself, after his wife was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. He wrote the play, The Actual Dance, which inspired this memoir, in 2012 and began performing in 2013. The play has been performed hundreds of times since then. Both the book and the play are autobiographical. See less