Scott Simon
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Scott Simon (born March 16, 1952) is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR.
Early life
Simon was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of comedian Ernie Simon and actress Patricia Lyons. He had a sister who died at a young age. He grew up in major cities across the United States and Canada, including Chicago; New York City; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Montreal; Cleveland; and Washington, D.C.
Simon's father was Jewish and his mother was Irish Catholic. His father died when Scott was 16, and his mother later married former minor league baseball player Ralph G. Newman, an American Civil War scholar and author who ran the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago.
Simon graduated from Nicholas Senn High School in 1970.
Personal life
As of 2009, Simon lives in Washington, D.C. He has been married to French documentary filmmaker Caroline Richard since September 2000. They have two daughters, both adopted as babies from China. They consider themselves a Jewish family (Simon's father was Jewish and his mother was Irish Catholic).
In 2006 Simon and his wife were contacted by police as part of the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning investigation. The family was staying at a hotel near the restaurant at the center of the poisoning incident, and had bought food there for one of their daughters. The health of the family was not affected.
In July 2013 Simon began tweeting his emotions and conversations with his mother during the last days of her life. "I just realized: she once had to let me go into the big wide world. Now I have to let her go the same way", read one tweet. In March 2015, he published a memoir about her titled Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime.
Jack Brickhouse, a Chicago broadcaster (1916–1998), is Simon's godfather, whom he refers to as an uncle.
Career
Simon has been with NPR for more than four decades, beginning in 1977 as the Chicago bureau chief. His work also included writing and television. He has been hosting the Weekend Edition since its inception in 1985, excepting a period in 1992 and 1993 when Alex Chadwick hosted the show.
My Cubs: A Love Story (2004); Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan (2006); Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball (2002); Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other (2005); and The Poetry of Politics (2008): My Cubs: A Love Story (2006).
In 2011,–13, Simon has hosted television series and specials, including PBS' Need to Know. He hosted BBC World News America, filling in for Matt Frei, and anchored NBC's Weekend Today in 1992–93.
Simon interviewed Bill Cosby and his wife Camille on Saturday's Weekend Edition about a 62-piece art collection they had loaned to the National Museum of African Art on November 15, 2014. Simon gave Cosby a chance to respond to the allegations of sexual harassment against him at the end of the interview. Cosby, who was narrated by Simon, refused to comment, only shaking his head no when asked.
Simon spoke and wrote in favor of the "war on terror" after the September 11 attacks, op-ed "Even Pacifists Must Support This War" in the Wall Street Journal on October 11, 2001. In December 2001, he debated nonviolence at a greater length in the Quaker journal Friends Journal, generating many angry letters, to which he replied in the May 2003 issue. Simon chastised the film Fahrenheit 9/11 for ostensible inaccuracies and what he described as an unfair representation of the US forces.
"I do not doubt that US Customs and Border Protection agents did everything they could to protect Jakelin Caquen's life," Simon said on December 15, 2018. On Twitter, journalists Jon Schwarz of The Intercept blasted Simon, referring to his remarks on Fahrenheit 9/11 to the US government's assumption of giving excessive credit to the doubt.
Simon has received numerous honorary degrees, as well as Peabody and Emmy awards.
He was named Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Willamette University in May 2010, where he served as the year's commencement speaker.
Simon is a Fellow of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois, receiving the state's highest award, the Order of Lincoln, from Illinois' Governor Robert Brown in 2016 in the field of Business, Industry, and Communications.