Mona Simpson
Writer in Residence
Primary Academic Program: Written Arts
Biography:
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Columbia University. Mona SImpson is the author of six novels and a former senior editor at the
Paris Review. During graduate school, she published her first short stories in
Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and
Mademoiselle. Her first novel,
Anywhere But Here (1986), was made into a film starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. Her other books include
The Lost Father (1992),
A Regular Guy (1997),
Off Keck Road (2000),
My Hollywood (2010), and
Casebook (2014). She is the recipient of a Whiting Prize (1986), Guggenheim (1988), National Endowment for the Arts grant, Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University (1987), Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Prize (1995), and Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize (2001). Simpson is also a PEN/Faulkner finalist and received a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008. At Bard: 1988–2001, 2005– ).
Contact:
Website: http://www.monasimpson.com