Roger L. Simon

Roger L. Simon is a successful mystery author and screenwriter living in California.

Partial Booklist

• The Mama Tass manifesto, a novel
• Dead Meet
• Heir (1969)
• The Big Fix (1974) ISBN 0671039067
• Wild Turkey (1976)
• Peking Duck (1979)
• California Roll (1985) ISBN 0394537114
• The Straight Man (1986) ISBN 0743413202
• Raising the Dead (1988) ISBN 0394564413
• The Lost Coast (1997) ISBN 074345913X
• Director's Cut (2003) ISBN 0743458028

Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film Enemies: A Love Story.

His screen adaptation of The Big Fix starred Oscar-winning 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 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 the National Review".

Simon also edits an influential weblog.

Since May 2005 he's been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

External Links

• Simon Says: One screenwriter’s political transformation Andrew Leigh in National Review
• Roger L. Simon: Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter Roger L. Simon's blog