Andrea Simon"I experience most of the world around me as a visual author and try to capture the physical atmosphere of place, as well as the motivation of characters. Every story has the potential of being unique and universal; and it is my job to balance the two."
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Andrea Simon is a published author with three award-winning books: Bashert: A Granddaughter’s Holocaust Quest, a memoir/history, republished in paperback, and topping the list for the 2021 Book Authority’s “Best Holocaust Biography Books of All Time”; Esfir Is Alive, a historical novel, a 2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist and 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards winner; and Floating in the Neversink, a novel-in-stories about growing up in the Catskills and Brooklyn in the 1950s, which won the 2020 New York Indie Author Project. As a native New Yorker, Andrea has a public-school education, from kindergarten to graduate school. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from City College. A proud member of two writing groups, Andrea has also taught and mentored many a scribbler. The mother of a grown daughter, she lives in Manhattan with her husband.
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