After that, she wrote The Lost Father, A Regular Guy and Off Keck Road. She stayed in New York and worked as an editor at The Paris Review for five years while finishing her first novel, Anywhere But Here. During graduate school, she published her first short stories in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review and Mademoiselle. She worked as a journalist before moving to New York to attend Columbia’s MFA program. Simpson went to Berkeley, where she studied poetry. Her father was a recent immigrant from Syria and her mother was the daughter of a mink farmer and the first person in her family to attend college. Mona Simpson was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, then moved to Los Angeles as a young teenager.
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