Charles Simmons
Illustration — Simmons in 1987 Charles Paul Simmons (August 17, 1924 – June 1, 2017) was an American editor and novelist. His first novel, Powdered Eggs (1964), was awarded the William Faulkner Foundation Award (1965) for a notable first novel. Later works include Salt Water (1998),A retelling of Turgenev's First Love, The New York Times called Salt Water "a small masterpiece".
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Charles Simmons
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- Born
- 1924 · Manhattan.
- Died
- 2017 · Manhattan.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- writer · editor
- Fields
- editing · novelist · author
- Education
- Columbia University · Regis High School
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Simmons in 1987 Charles Paul Simmons (August 17, 1924 – June 1, 2017) was an American editor and novelist. His first novel, Powdered Eggs (1964), was awarded the William Faulkner Foundation Award (1965) for a notable first novel. Later works include Salt Water (1998),A retelling of Turgenev's First Love, The New York Times called Salt Water "a small masterpiece".
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The Belles Lettres Papers, and Wrinkles and co-author together with Alexander Coleman of All There is to Know: Readings From the Illustrious Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He was formerly an editor of The New York Times Book Review. Simmons graduated from Regis High School and then Columbia University in 1948. The Belles Lettres Papers satirized the world of book review publications; the Chicago Tribune said that, in it, Simmons "mounted.50-caliber machine guns on his wings and strafed his former colleagues at the New York Times Book Review". One plot point alluded to a 1985 news story surrounding a newly discovered sonnet that some claimed was written by Shakespeare.
• Simmons, Charles (1973). Powdered Eggs. Penguin Books. • Simmons, Charles (1978). Wrinkles. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. • Simmons, Charles (1987). The Belles Lettres Papers. William Morrow. • Simmons, Charles (1988). An Old-fashioned Darling. Penguin Books. • Coleman, Alexander (Editor); Simmons, Charles (Editor). (1994). All There Is to Know: Readings From the Illustrious Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Simon & Schuster. • Simmons, Charles (1999). Salt Water. Gallery Books.
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- 1.Roberts, Sam. Charles Simmons, Novelist and Critic, Dies at 92. The New York Times. June 7, 2017.
- 2.Going Under. The New York Times. September 6, 1998.
- 3.Simmons, Charles. 24 (At Least) Little Pigs. The New York Times. 45. 13 November 1983.
- 4.Schiff, Stephen. Anyone we know?. The New York Times. 1987-05-24. 0362-4331.
- 5.Other Deaths Reported. Columbia College Today. Fall 2017.
- 6.Coates, Joseph. A STUNT PILOT OF LITERATURE STILL FLYING HIGH AND WILD. Chicago Tribune. 7. 1988-11-06.
- 7.Taylor, Gary. SHAKESPEARE'S NEW POEM: A SCHOLAR'S CLUES AND CONCLUSIONS. The New York Times. 1985-12-15. 0362-4331.
- 8.Hill, Heather. Are those Skeletons Rattling in Times's Closet?. The Gazette (Montreal). J6. 1987-07-11.
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