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American novelist (born 1957)

This article is about the novelist Mona Simpson. For the Simpsons character named after her, see Mona Simpson (The Simpsons).

Mona Simpson (néeJandali; June 14, 1957)^[1][2] is an American novelist.

She has written six novels and studied English at University of California, Berkeley, and languages and literature at Columbia University.^[3][4] She won a Whiting Award for her first novel, Anywhere but Here (1986).

It was a popular success and adapted as a film by the same name, released in 1999. She wrote a sequel, The Lost Father (1992).

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Critical recognition has included the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and making the shortlist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Off Keck Road (2000).

She is the biological younger sister of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

She was born after her parents had married and did not meet Jobs, who was placed for adoption after he was born, until