Roger L. Simon

Roger L. Simon

Roger Lichtenberg Simon is an award-winning mystery author, blogger and screenwriter living in California. He is currently the CEO of Pajamas Media.

Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film "Enemies, a Love Story".

His screen adaptation of his own novel"The Big Fix" starred actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed hard-boiled private detective Moses Wine. Wine is cynical, hard-edged and also a former 1960s radical.

Simon himself experienced a political transformation in which he felt alienated from what he saw as the excesses of the Left after the realities of the September 11, 2001 attacks affected him. He jokes "I may be the first American writer who was profiled both by "Mother Jones" and "National Review"." He supports both same-gender marriage and the War on Terror, and contends that those issues are linked. [http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/08/gay_marriage_and_the_war_on_te.php]

Simon also edits an influential weblog. In 2005 Simon founded, with bass-player Charles Johnson, webmaster of the Little Green Footballs weblog, a startup company called Pajamas Media.

Simon has been married three times. He is currently married to Sheryl Longin, who wrote the screenplay for Dick, a film spoof of Watergate.

Partial bibliography

*"Dead Meet" (1968)
*"Heir" (1968)
*"The Mama Tass Manifesto" (1970) ISBN 0-03-084528-9
*"The Big Fix" (1973) ISBN 0-87932-048-6
*"Wild Turkey" (1974) ISBN 0-87932-082-6
*"Peking Duck" (1979) ISBN 0-671-22880-3
*"California Roll" (1985) ISBN 0-394-53711-4
*"The Straight Man" (1986) ISBN 0-394-55837-5
*"Raising the Dead" (1988) ISBN 0-394-56441-3
*"The Lost Coast" (1997) ISBN 0-06-017707-1
*"Director's Cut" (2003) ISBN 0-7434-5802-8

External links

* [http://rogerlsimon.com/ Roger L. Simon: Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter] Roger L. Simon's blog
* [http://pajamasmedia.com/pages/2006/08/about_us.php Pajamas Media: About Us] Pajamas Media
* [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/leigh200406030851.asp Simon Says: One screenwriter’s political transformation] Andrew Leigh in National Review
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/rogersimon/ 1986 audio interview of Roger Simon, RealAudio at Wired for Books.org]


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