Mona Simpson (born June 14, 1957 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a novelist and essayist. She was born to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble, and a Syrian father, political science professor Abdulfattah John Jandali. She is the younger sister of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. Jobs was given up for adoption as a baby by his then-unmarried mother; the two siblings only met each other as adults. June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Green Bay is the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. ... Apple Inc. ...

She attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied with Jackson Burgess, Seamus Heaney, Leonard Michaels and Thom Gunn. Having received her B.A. in English from Berkeley in 1979, she attended Columbia University where she received an M.F.A. She worked for Paris Review during this period. Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... The Paris Review, which is actually based in New York, is a literary magazine started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. ...

At Columbia she began her first published novel, Anywhere But Here, the story of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship, which became a bestseller when it was published by Knopf in 1987. Anywhere But Here was followed by The Lost Father and A Regular Guy. She has since published the novel Off Keck Road, which was nominated for a Pen Faulkner Award. Excerpts from her new novel, My Hollywood have been published in Harpers Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and Best American Short Stories. A short piece of it has been aired several times on This American Life. Anywhere But Here is a 1999 film by Wayne Wang starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman, based on the novel by Mona Simpson. ... Colophon of the publisher Alfred A. Knopf. ...

Mona Simpson is also a contributor to anthologies and essay collections. She currently lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband, former Simpsons writer Richard Appel, and their two children. For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). ... The Simpsons. ... Richard Appel (born 1964) is a writer and producer of TV-shows. ...

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External links

• Random House biography
• 1992 audio interview of Mona Simpson, RealAudio
• http://www.theharvardadvocate.com/archives/driving.html