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X-WR-CALNAME:"The Wrong Girl": A Reading with Mona Simpson
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DESCRIPTION:Mona Simpson will read excerpts from her forthcoming novel The 
 Wrong Girl and will then be joined by Joanna Scott\, UR Professor of Engli
 sh\, for a discussion.\n\n-----\n\nMona Simpsonn was born in Green Bay\, W
 isconsin\, then moved to Los Angeles a young teenager. Her father was a re
 cent immigrant from Syria and her mother was the daughter of a mink farmer
  and the first person in her family to attend college. Simpson went to Ber
 keley\, where she studied poetry. She worked as a journalist before moving
  to New York to attend Columbia’s MFA program. During graduate school\, 
 she published her first short stories in Ploughshares\, The Iowa Review an
 d Mademoiselle. She stayed in New York and worked as an editor at The Pari
 s Review for five years while finishing her first novel\, Anywhere But Her
 e. After that\, she wrote The Lost Father\, A Regular Guy\, Off Keck Road\
 , My Hollywood\, and Casebook.\n\nHer work has been awarded several prizes
 : A Whiting Prize\, A Guggenheim\, a grant from the NEA\, a Hodder Fellows
 hip from Princeton University\, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Prize\, a Ch
 icago Tribune Heartland Prize\, Pen Faulkner finalist\, and most recently\
 , a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.\n\nMon
 a's latest novel\, Commitment\, is on sale now.\n\n \n\nThe Public Lecture
  Series is presented by the University of Rochester Humanities Center.
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LOCATION:Rush Rhees Library\, Humanities Center Conference Room D
SUMMARY:"The Wrong Girl": A Reading with Mona Simpson
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 ecture-series-mona-simpson
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