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Scott Simon Wiki Information
Scott Simon
(born March 16, 1952) [1] [2] is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday
on National Public Radio.
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Biography
Simon was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of comedian Ernie Simon and actress Patricia Lyons. [3] [4] He grew up in major cities across the United States and Canada, including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.[ After his father died, his mother married Ralph G. Newman, a former baseball player and American Civil War scholar and author who ran the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago. [5] [6]
]
Simon's first book, Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan
, was published in the spring of 2000, and his second, Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
, was published in 2002. He is also the author of two novels: Pretty Birds
(2005) and Windy City: A Novel of Politics
(2008).
Simon's trademark is a friendly, slightly comic demeanor, as he expressed in "" with the lines "well-modulated reason and decency" and "warm and self-effacing".
Simon has hosted BBC World News America
, filling in for Matt Frei.
After the terrorist events of September 11, 2001, Simon gave talks and penned essays supporting military action. One, questioning nonviolence, appeared in the Quaker publication Friends Journal in December 2001 and provoked many angry letters. In the same journal in May 2003, in which he was billed as "a formal member of Friends meetings in Washington and Chicago, he confessed that his "religious convictions have been knocked about by real life."
Family
Known as a happy bachelor until the age of 48, Simon met French documentary filmmaker Caroline Richard, then 33, during an NPR interview in 2000. They married September 10, 2000, in a mixed faith Methodist, Quaker, and Jewish service in Ridgefield, Connecticut, at the home of fashion designer Alexander Julian.[ They have two daughters, both adopted as babies from China, the first, Elise, in 2004, [7] [8] [9] and the second, Lina, in 2007. [10] They consider themselves a Jewish family.][
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Simon and his wife were contacted by police as part of the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning. The family was staying at a hotel near the restaurant at the center of the poisoning incident, and had twice bought food there for their young daughter. The health of the family was not affected. [11]
References
- Weddings: Vows; Scott Simon and Caroline Richard
- Annoying Campaign Songs
- Three Americans: Abraham Lincoln, Aaron Copland and NPR's Scott Simon
- NPR Biography on Scott Simon. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- "Chicago's Cubs", by Jonathan Alter, ''The Washington Monthly'', May 2000. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- "Memorial to Ralph G. Newman", by John Y. Simon, July 1998, reprinted in ''Illinois Heritage 2000'', hosted by Northern Illinois University. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
- "Cat and Child, So Comfy Together", by Scott Simon, ''Weekend Edition'', November 27, 2004. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- "NPR Host Scott Simon: Riding on Airwaves", Jeff Rubin, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, October 18, 2006. Also at InterfaithFamily.com. Both retrieved 2007-07-10.
- "Scott Simon Releases First Novel:Pretty Birds", WKAR, 2005-08-30. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- "Reflections on Welcoming a New Family Member", Scott Simon, ''Weekend Edition'', June 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
- "NPR report." ''NPR.'' November 30, 2006. Retrieved 2007-07-10.
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