Now On Sale A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s. More about Commitment →

Now On Sale A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s. More about Commitment →

From the acclaimed and award-winning author: a beguiling new novel about an eavesdropping boy working to discover the obscure mysteries of his unraveling family. He uncovers instead what he least wants to know: the workings of his parents' private li

From the acclaimed and award-winning author: a beguiling new novel about an eavesdropping boy working to discover the obscure mysteries of his unraveling family. He uncovers instead what he least wants to know: the workings of his parents' private lives. And even then he can't stop snooping. More about Casebook →

A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of Anywhere But Here and A Regular Guy, tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood. More about My Hollywood →

A wonderfully provocative and appealing novel, from the much-loved author of Anywhere But Here and A Regular Guy, tells the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood. More about My Hollywood →

Mesmerizing, compact, and intense, Off Keck Road reflects fully half a century of American life. In this superb novella, Simpson reveals the precise costs and rewards of staying—out of affinity and obligation, out of chance, circumstance, and choice.

Mesmerizing, compact, and intense, Off Keck Road reflects fully half a century of American life. In this superb novella, Simpson reveals the precise costs and rewards of staying—out of affinity and obligation, out of chance, circumstance, and choice. More about Off Keck Road →

More powerfully than ever before, Mona Simpson has uncovered the nature of longing and belonging, of birthright and the human heart, with what The New York Times has called her "dazzling literary gift and uncommon wisdom." More about A Regular

More powerfully than ever before, Mona Simpson has uncovered the nature of longing and belonging, of birthright and the human heart, with what The New York Times has called her "dazzling literary gift and uncommon wisdom." More about A Regular Guy →

The Lost Father confirms the truth of the constant struggle to find faith and to locate and preserve a protector in a world with too many absences. A book that should galvanize Mona Simpson’s reputation as one of the most accomplished writers of her

The Lost Father confirms the truth of the constant struggle to find faith and to locate and preserve a protector in a world with too many absences. A book that should galvanize Mona Simpson’s reputation as one of the most accomplished writers of her generation. More about The Lost Father →

Mona Simpson's novel gives us characters who are at once emblems of American life and totally individual and alive in their moral complexity and emotional range. The Augusts, mother and daughter, are triumphant creations. More about Anywhere But

Mona Simpson's novel gives us characters who are at once emblems of American life and totally individual and alive in their moral complexity and emotional range. The Augusts, mother and daughter, are triumphant creations. More about Anywhere But Here →

Upcoming events

  • OPEN MIND—UCLA’s FREE LECTURE SERIES

    Tuesday, June 13, 2023,
    5:00–6:00 PM PT, Online event

    A conversation with Mona Simpson and Elizabeth Bromley, M.D., Ph.D., UCLA’s Professor in Residence in the Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Anthropology.

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  • Book Post's summer reading of Middlemarch

    June 2023
    Online event

    Mona Simpson and Book Post are reading a chapter a week of Middlemarch. Receive weekly updates by email and participate in the comments.

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Latest Press

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Mona Simpson Reads From Her Latest Novel, Commitment
Mona Simpson Reads From Her Latest Novel, Commitment

A reading and discussion of Commitment with Mona Simpson and chef, author, and radio host Evan Kleiman at the Hammer Museum.

Get Lit Book Club: Mona Simpson with Musical Guest Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen
Get Lit Book Club: Mona Simpson with Musical Guest Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen

WNYC’s Get Lit Book Club: Mona Simpson with musical guest Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen at the New York Public Library.

Mona Simpson’s Guide to Writing
Mona Simpson’s Guide to Writing

In an interview with Air Mail, Mona Simpson discusses her new book, her early days working at The Paris Review, and finding inspiration.

Mona Simpson’s Generously Proportioned, Gently Powerful Seventh Novel.
Mona Simpson’s Generously Proportioned, Gently Powerful Seventh Novel.

Read a review of Commitment in The New York Times.

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With Commitment, Mona Simpson, one of the foremost chroniclers of the American family in our time, has written her most important and unforgettable novel.

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