Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1957. Her father was a professor of political science and her mother a speech therapist. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia. She has published four novels, Anywhere But Here (1986), The Lost Father (1992), A Regular Guy (1996) and Off Keck Road (2000), which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1996 she was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, and she is a winner of the Whiting Prize and the Lila Wallace award. Her latest novel is Casebook (2014).
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First Sentence: Mona Simpson
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‘A year later, still in third person, I’d taken five days off my character’s long wait. I’d moved to present tense, though, for more immediacy.’
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Holiday
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‘It had been a long time since the majority of my thoughts and small goals and hopes and chagrins were communicable to him. I wanted to try.’
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The Driving Child
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‘Staring out at the endless gray, Mary wrote a letter to her mother and told her she'd named the baby Jane, the name she'd years ago given her only doll.’
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Ramadan
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‘His articulate hands moved around my face as if fashioning an imaginary veil there.’
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Victory Mills
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‘I have driven a car on acid, carried my mother drunk upstairs and slept with numerous men and one woman to no consequence.’