Mona Simpson is the author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, and Off Keck Road, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Heartland Prize of the Chicago Tribune. She has received a Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim grant, a Lila WallaceReaders Digest Writers Award, and, recently, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
This biography was last updated on 08/03/2010.
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