Roger L. Simon
About
American novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter
Roger L. Simon is an award-winning novelist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of PJMedia, and now, columnist for The Epoch Times. He is the author of ten novels, including the Moses Wine detective series, seven produced screenplays and two non-fiction books. He has served as president of the West Coast branch of PEN, a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, and was on the faculty of the American Film Institute and the Sundance Institute. His many journalistic articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Commentary, Real Clear Politics and City Journal, among others. Mr. Simon has also been a Hoover Institute Media Fellow.
Screenplays
Besides, “The Big Fix”, among Simon’s other screenwriting credits are Bustin’ Loose, with Richard Pryor, Enemies, A Love Story with Anjelica Huston and Ron Silver, My Man Adam which Simon also directed, and Scenes from a Mall, with Woody Allen and Bette Midler. Simon also received story credit on A Better Life, a movie about an undocumented immigrant working as a gardener in Los Angeles while struggling to keep his son away from gangs. The film was directed by Chris Weitz; lead actor Demián Bichir was nominated for a 2012 “Best Actor” Academy Award.
Awards
Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film Enemies, a Love Story based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer.
The Moses Wine novels have been nominated for the Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. The Big Fix received the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel from the Crime Writers of Great Britain.
