Rachel simon biography
- Rachel Simon is an American author of both fiction and non-fiction.
- I'm the author of six books and a nationally-recognized public speaker on diversity and disability.
- Rachel Simon was born on February 5, 1981 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. She is a producer and production manager, known for The Venture Bros.
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Building A Home With My Husband
(The House On Teachers Lane)
When Rachel Simon and her architect husband Hal begin to renovate their house, she braces herself for the ups and downs that often accompany such projects. But to her surprise, as the old walls fall, and new paint appears, she is propelled into a transformative journey that encompasses the deepest issues of life and love. With compassion, humor, and hope this 2009 memoir shimmers with memorable insights into the power of forgiveness, the struggle to find meaning and purpose, the compatibility of imperfection and happiness, and the ways broken bonds can be mended. Home renovation becomes a beautiful allegory for re-evaluating and repairing the most intimate of relationships.
This title can be found on the secondhand book market or by contacting the author.
The Writers Survival Guide
This inspirational guide for aspiring and experienced writers was published in 1997. Written in a friendly, hopeful, and gently humorous tone, it focuses on the creative process and the emotional ups and down
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Books by Rachel Simon and Complete Book Reviews
Little Nightmares, Dreams CL
Rachel Simon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-89919-952-8
This distinctive, often arresting debut collection of stories marks its author as a writer to watch. In 16 tales, Simon displays an original and provocative style. With a dark humor that often plunges her characters into surreal circumstances, she...
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The Magic Touch: 2a Novel
Rachel Simon, Author Viking Books $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-85262-8
This playful, bawdy first novel is presented as a biography of ``sexual healer'' Celeste Kipplebaum Runetoon Kelley, whose convoluted moniker characterizes the overall goofy spirit. Simon imaginatively combines a young woman's coming-of-age story...
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
Rachel Simon, Grand Central, $24.99 (346p) ISBN 978-0-446-57446-4
In this enthralling love story, Lynnie, a young white developmentally disabled woman with limited speech, and Homan, a deaf African-American man, meet at the Pennsylvania State S
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Rachel Simon was born in 1959, in Newark, New Jersey, and moved to many different towns in her youth. She was the second child of four and spent much of her childhood writing and sharing short stories with her friends. When Simon was eight years old, her parents divorced after her father began a relationship with a colleague. Years later, when her mother married an abusive con artist, Simon and two of her siblings moved out, while her one sister, Beth, stayed. Eventually, Beth came to live with Simon and their father, too, causing a falling-out between Simon and her mother. This rift in her family and related struggles underpin the topics of some of Simon’s books.
Simon attended Solebury School, a boarding school in New Hope, Pennsylvania, starting at age 16. She then studied anthropology at Bryn Mawr College. After graduating in 1981, Simon worked in various jobs, including paralegal, administrative assistant, and research supervisor for a television study. At 26 years old she enrolled in a graduate program for creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. After earning her degree
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