Mayo Simon

Not to be confused with Simon Mayo.
Mayo Simon
Born United States
Occupation Screenwriter, author, playwright
Years active 1963present
Children 2

Mayo Simon is a screenwriter, author and playwright.[1][2][3]

He is the father of the author Francesca Simon[4] and biologist-X-Files science advisor Anne Simon.[3]

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Books

The Audience & the Playwright (2003)

References

  1. Thompson, Howard (December 19, 1969). "Marooned (1969) The Screen: 'Marooned,' Space Film, Opens the New Ziegfeld:Story Built on Perils of Planetary Trips". The New York Times.
  2. "Mayo Smith". The New York Times.
  3. 1 2 McCoy, Terrence (August 9, 2015). "Meet the scientist behind the return of 'The X-Files' to television". washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post. Retrieved August 11, 2015. Her dad, Mayo Simon, was a Hollywood scriptwriter. He penned some prominent sci-fi offerings — 'Marooned,' 'Futureworld' and 'Man from Atlantis' — when she was a child living in Southern California.
  4. McCrum, Robert (13 September 2013). "Francesca Simon: 'When I started out, people would ask: "When will you write for adults?"'". theguardian.com. Retrieved August 11, 2015. Her father, Mayo Simon, was an American screenwriter who graduated from educational public television (KETC) programmes to Hollywood during the early 1960s. Simon, who says she is 'very obviously the eldest' of four, was brought up in a nomadic, hand-to-mouth but happily chaotic Jewish American family home. . . . By the time she went to college, she had lived in California, England and France, but considers herself to be very much a West Coaster.

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