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Simon Van Booy is a British author.

He has written two collections of short stories, The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

Along with editing three volumes of philosophy, entitled Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter, due for publication in 2010...his essays have been published in newspapers, including The New York Times, the New York Post, The Daily Telegraph, and The Times in London. He has also written for the stage and for National Public Radio. His first novel is slated for publication in 2011.

He has lectured at schools and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom, and teaches part-time at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is an advocate of education as a means of social reform, and involved in the Rutgers University Early College Humanities program (REaCH) for young adults living in under-served communities.

He has lived in New York City since 2000, and is published there by Harper Perennial. His work has been translated into nine languages.

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Total Books: 26
Father's Day A Novel
2016 - Father's Day a Novel (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780062408945
ISBN-10: 0062408941
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 2

The Illusion of Separateness
2014 - The Illusion of Separateness [P.S.] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780062248459
ISBN-10: 0062248456
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
 3

Love Begins in Winter Five Stories
2009 - Love Begins in Winter Five Stories [P.S.] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780061661471
ISBN-10: 0061661473
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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