Roger Lichtenberg Simon is an American mystery author, blogger and screenwriter. He is currently the CEO of Pajamas Media and lives in California.
Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film Enemies, a Love Story. Among his other screenwriting credits are Bustin' Loose with Richard Pryor and Scenes from a Mall with Woody Allen and Bette Midler.
His screen adaptation of his own novel The Big Fix starred ...
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Roger Lichtenberg Simon is an American mystery author, blogger and screenwriter. He is currently the CEO of Pajamas Media and lives in California.
Simon was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay of the 1989 film Enemies, a Love Story. Among his other screenwriting credits are Bustin' Loose with Richard Pryor and Scenes from a Mall with Woody Allen and Bette Midler.
His screen adaptation of his own novel The Big Fix starred actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrayed hard-boiled private detective Moses Wine. Wine is cynical, hard-edged and also a former 1960s radical. The Wine novels have been nominated for Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and have been translated into over a dozen languages. The Big Fix received the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel from the Crime Writers of Great Britain.
Simon himself experienced a political transformation in which he felt alienated from what he saw as the excesses of the Left after the realities of the...
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