Mona Simpson (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

Mona Simpson’s first novel, Anywhere but Here (1986), explores the complex relationship between mother and daughter. Her second novel, The Lost Father (1991), continues the story as Mayan Stevenson searches for her missing father. In A Regular Guy (1996) Simpson examines the relationship between a geneticist-tycoon and the illegitimate daughter he abandoned.

Achievements

Mona Simpson’s short stories have been selected for Twenty Under Thirty and the annual The Best American Short Stories. She was chosen...

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