Simon Rich
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| Born |
June 5, 1984 New York City, United States |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Notable works | Man Seeking Woman Saturday Night Live Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations Free-Range Chickens Elliot Allagash What in God's Name |
| Relatives |
Frank Rich (father) Nathaniel Rich (brother) |
Simon Rich (born June 5, 1984) is an American humorist, novelist, and screenwriter. He has published two novels and three collections of humor pieces, several of which appeared in the New Yorker, and his novels and short stories have been translated into over a dozen languages. Rich was one of the youngest writers ever hired on Saturday Night Live and served as a staff writer for Pixar. On January 14, 2015, Man Seeking Woman, a television comedy series from Rich, based on his The Last Girlfriend on Earth, premiered on FXX.
Rich was born and raised in New York City. He attended The Dalton School and then enrolled at Harvard University where he became president of the Harvard Lampoon. His older brother is novelist and essayist Nathaniel Rich, and his parents are Gail Winston and New York Times author Frank Rich. His step-mother is New York Times reporter Alex Witchel. After graduating from Harvard, Rich wrote for Saturday Night Live for four years where the staff was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Variety, Music or Comedy Series in 2008, 2009, and 2010 and won the Writers Guild of America Award for Comedy/Variety Series in 2009 and 2010. Rich then departed to work as a staff writer for Pixar. In 2013 and 2014, Rich was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 List.
As an undergraduate at Harvard University in 2007, Rich received a two-book contract from Random House. Rich's first book, a collection of short humor pieces entitled Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations was published in 2007 and was nominated for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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