Fellow Spotlight: Mona Simpson
Writer Mona Simpson is at work on several new novel ideas — one of them about FDR’s most trusted women.
Publication 25 Sep 2024
Mona Simpson is a writer based in Santa Monica, California. At the Academy, she is working on a novel centered on two women in the life of the iconic American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt: his wife, Eleanor, from whom he was deeply estranged, and Francis Perkins, his secretary of labor. She is also at work on two other novels-in-progress.
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