Mona Simpson

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Mona Simpson (née Jandali, 1957) is an American novelist.

She has written six books and lectured English at Bard College's University of California, Berkeley, and Literature and Literature. (1986) She received a Whiting Award for her first book, Anywhere but Here (1986).

It was a hit and was reimagined as a film with the same name, and it was released in 1999.

In 1992, she wrote The Lost Father, a sequel.

The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and being shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for her book Off Keck Road (2000) have been lauded by a deserved honor. Simpson is the younger sibling of Apple Inc.

Steve Jobs, a co-founder, was the founder of Steve Jobs.

Simpson was born after her parents divorced and did not know Jobs, who was not available for adoption until she was 25 years old.

Education and teaching

Simpson was a good student as an adult, but he was also "a clown" and "a genius aleck" who used to make jokes in class. When I was younger, I did get into trouble a lot, but then I didn't like school so much." "I stuck with poetry as long as I could," Beverly Hills High School's poet wrote about poetry at University of California, Berkeley: "as far as my gifts would take me." She earned her B.A. after completing her B.A. She spent time in Berkeley during the days and worked as a reporter on weekends and nights. She loved journalism and wished for a career with the Richmond Independent Gazette but did not receive it. She then attended Columbia University's graduate school and earned her M.F.A. from there. She was an editor for the Paris Review when she was a student at Columbia University.

Simpson, then-husband Richard Appel, returned to Los Angeles in 1994. Simpson began teaching creative writing at UCLA in 2001; she now has an appointment at Bard College in New York state.

Personal life

Mona Jandali was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to an Arab father from Syria and a Swiss-German American mother. Joanne Carole Schieble's mother was born on August 1, 1932, and she grew up Roman Catholic on a Wisconsin farm. Abdulfattah "John"), her father, was born in Homs, Syria, on March 15, 1931. (Arabic: )Jandali (Arabic: ) He is the son of a self-made millionaire with no formal education and a mother who was a traditional housewife. When an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut, Jandali was a student activist (and spent time in jail). Despite the fact that he initially wanted to study law, he eventually decided to focus on economics and political science and earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. He was there that Schieble met (Jandali was Schieble's tutor but both were the same age).

Schieble's parents were not happy with the marriage, according to Simpson: "I wasn't that he was Middle-Eastern so much as he was a Muslim." But in Michigan and Wisconsin, there are a lot of Arabs. So it's not unusual." Schieble's father "thenged to divorce Joanne completely," Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs' official biographer, adds that if the friendship continued, she would have lost everything. Nonetheless, although Jandali and Schieble were still unmarried undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin in 1954, she became pregnant after spending the summer with him and his family in Homs, Syria. Schieble decided to place the baby up for adoption despite her parents' opposition to the marriage. In 1955, she travelled alone to San Francisco to work with a doctor who cared for unwed mothers and gave birth to a baby boy. (Bays was later adopted by a couple in San Francisco). Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., will rise to be the co-founder. Schieble's father died six months after she gave the baby up for adoption. She then wed Jandali and gave birth to Mona. It is, however, unclear why Schieble retained Mona and raised her when abandoning Steve a short time earlier.

After completing his Ph.D., Jandali claims he returned to Syria to work and that Schieble left him during this time. They divorced in 1962. After the divorce, he claims he lost touch with his daughter for a period of time: "I also bear the blame for being away from my daughter when she was four years old," she said when I returned to Syria, but we regained contact after ten years. When her mother moved, I didn't know where she was, but we've been in constant contact since ten years ago, and I see her three times a year. I arranged a trip for her last year to visit Syria and Lebanon, as well as a cousin from Florida." George Simpson, an ice skating instructor, married Schieble a few years ago. Mona Jandali took her stepfather's name, resulting in Mona Simpson's appearance. Schieble moved Mona to Los Angeles in 1970, where she raised her on her own.

Clara, Jobs' adopted mother, died of lung cancer in 1986, and Schieble (who had already discovered through a lengthy search) for the first time. He later learned that not only was Simpson his sister but that she had no idea an older brother had been adopted. Schieble and Simpson then met in New York, where Simpson worked. "He was so clear and lovely, just a normal and sweet guy," she said of her first impression of Jobs. Simpson and Jobs went for a long walk in order to get to know each other. "Mona was not thrilled at first to have me in her life and have her mother so loving toward me," she says; as we got to know each other, we became really good friends and she is my family. I'd like to know what I'd do without her. I can't imagine a better sister. Patty, my adopted sister, and I were never close."

After meeting Simpson, Jobs told his formal biographer that he wanted to become involved in their father's continuing hunt. When Jandali was discovered working in Sacramento, jobs decided that only Simpson would know him. Jandali and Simpson remained for many hours, at which point he told her that he did not teach to join the restaurant industry. He and Schieble had given another child away for adoption, but that "we'll never see it again." "That baby has been missing." Simpson did not reveal that she had met Jobs at his request. Jandali also told Simpson that he once owned a Mediterranean restaurant near San Jose and that "all of the latest technologies people used to come there." Yes, Steve Jobs used to come in, and he was a sweet guy and a big tipper." After hearing about the trip, Jobs recalled that "it was amazing... I had been to this restaurant a few times before and I recall the owner. He was Syrian. Balding is a process that involves balancing. We shook hands." However, Jobs did not want to meet Jandali because "I was a wealthy man by then, and I didn't want him not to threaten me or go to the press about it." I begged Mona not to tell him about me." Jandali later discovered his connection to Jobs via an online forum. "What is this thing about Steve Jobs?" he questioned Simpson, asking, "What is this thing about Steve Jobs?" "My father is thoughtful and a wonderful storyteller, but he never called Steve," Simpson said later. Simpson, a mother of six children, hoped that Jobs would someday want to meet their father, but he didn't. In the 1992 book The Lost Father, Simpson fictionalized the father's hunt for their father. In the 1996 novel A Regular Guy, she would also draw a fictional portrait of Jobs.

In 1993, Simpson married television writer and producer Richard Appel and had two children, Gabriel and Grace. Mona Simpson was named after his wife, Appel, a writer for The Simpsons, starting with the episode "Mother Simpsons." They divorced later in life. Malek Jandali and Bassma Al Jandaly are two of Simpson's paternal cousins.

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Awards

• 1986, Whiting Award
• 1987, Hodder Fellowship (Princeton University)
• 1988, Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1995, Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fellowship
• 2001, Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
• 2001, Finalist: PEN/Faulkner award
• 2008, Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters