Mona Simpson

Mona Simpson lives in Santa Monica and New York City. (Publisher Provided) Mona Simpson was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on June 14, 1957. She received a B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her first book, Anywhere but Here, was published in 1987 and was adapted into a movie in 1999. Her other works include The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, and My Hollywood. She won the Heartland Prize of the Chicago Tribune for Off Keck Road. She has also received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Anywhere but Here… (lisätietoja)