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Roger Lichtenberg Simon is an American novelist, screenwriter, and CEO of Pajamas Media. He is the author of ten novels, including the Moses Wine detective series, and six screenplays. 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.

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 laidback private detective Moses Wine. 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.

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