Simon Rich Biography
Simon Rich is an America born humorist, screenwriter, and novelist. He is best known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Miracle Workers (2019) and Inside Out (2015). Simon is among the youngest writer to be hired on Saturday Night Live. He has also served as a staff writer for Pixar animations.
He has so far published two novels and three collections of humor pieces. Several of his pieces have appeared in The New Yorker. He created a television comedy series Man Seeking Woman which premiered on the cable channel FXX on 14 January 2015. The series is based upon his novel The Last Girlfriend on Earth.
Rich’s short stories and novels have also been translated into over a dozen languages. He was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List in 2013 and 2014
Simon Rich Age
Rich is 35 years old as of 2019. He was born on 5 June 1984 in New York City, U.S.
Simon Rich Family
Rich was born to Gail Winston and the essayist and liberal progressive op-ed columnist Frank Rich. He has an older brother Nathaniel Rich who is a novelist and essayist. His step-mother Alex Witchel is a journalist and reporter for the New York Times.
His father is known for holding various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011. Frank Rich has also served as executive producer of various Tv series like Veep.
His brother Nathaniel is known for his essays and reviews for The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, and also Slate. Nathaniel lives in New Orleans with his wife Meredith ASngelson and they together have a son.
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Rich is married to British actress, Kathleen Hale. Hale is a freelance journalist and author, living in New York. Mrs. Rich has written the book ‘No One Else Can Have You’. The couple are blessed with one daughter.
Simon Rich Education
Rich attended The Town School and later joined Dalton School. After his graduation, he enrolled at Harvard University where he was president of the Harvard Lampoon.
Simon Rich SNL
He wrote for Saturday Night Live for four years after graduating. The staff was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Series in 2008, 2009, and 2010. They won the Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety Series in 2009 and 2010. Rich later left to work as a staff writer for Pixar.
Simon Rich Author
Rich has written for several publications including McSweeney’s, The Believer, GQ, The Observer magazine, Mad magazine, French Vanity Fair, UK Glamour, Italian GQ, Italian Granta, NPR.com, NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” and also the Barcelona Review.
Simon’s writing has been selected for numerous anthologies including The Best of McSweeney’s, and I Found This Funny, edited by Judd Apatow.
He received a two-book contract from Random House as an undergraduate at Harvard University in 2007. His first book, a collection of short humor pieces entitled Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations was published in 2007. The book was nominated for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Free Range Chickens, was then published in 2008.
Elliot Allagash is Simon’s third book and first novel, it was released on May 2010. In June 2010, Canadian screenwriter Jason Reitman optioned the movie rights to the novel. Simon’s second novel, What in God’s Name was published in 2012. The New York Times Book Review compared it to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Simon Rich The Last Girlfriend On Earth | Last Girlfriend On Earth
Last Girlfriend On Earth was Rich’s third collection of stories being published in 2013. Its reception was favorable with The Washington Post praising the book as “hilarious,” declaring, “it just might be the best one-night stand you’ll ever have.”
Spoiled Brats Simon Rich
His fourth collection Spoiled Brats was published in 2014. The book was described as “simply the funniest book of the year,” by The Guardian adding “there are sometimes three laugh-out-loud moments within the same paragraph.” It was also praised by The Evening Standard calling Rich “a Thurber, even a Wodehouse, for today. Who could ask for more? You can give his books to people and just watch them laugh.”
Hits and Misses Simon Rich | Simon Rich Hits and Misses | Hits and Misses By Simon Rich
Rich’s fifth collection of stories Hits and Misses was published in 2018. The stories vary widely in theme; the one thing they all have in common is that they’re laugh-out-loud funny. NPR went ahead to credit that “with this book, Rich has come into his own as one of the most talented writers of comedic fiction working today.”
Simon Rich Books
2018 – Hits and Misses: Stories Simon Rich
2016 – The World of Simon Rich
2014 – Spoiled Brats: Stories Simon Rich
2013 – The Married Kama Sutra: The World’s Least Erotic Sex Manual Simon Rich
2013 – The Last Girlfriend on Earth
2012 – What In God’s Name
Simon Rich Net Worth
The author’s net worth is not yet disclosed to the public.
Simon Rich TV Shows
2007–2011 – Saturday Night Live as Writer, actor
2009 – CH Live: NYC as Himself
2014 – Late Night with Seth Meyers as Himself
2015–2017 – Man Seeking Woman as Creator, writer, executive producer
2017 – The Simpsons as Writer
2019 – Miracle Workers as Creator, writer, executive producer
Simon Rich Films
2015 – Inside Out as Additional story material
2016 – The Secret Life of Pets as Additional characters
2019 – American Pickle as Writer