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Simon Van Booy

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born
March 15, 1975 in London, The United Kingdom

gender
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genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs


About this author

Simon Van Booy was born in London and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. After playing football in Kentucky, he lived in Paris and Athens. In 2002 he was awarded an MFA and won the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize. His journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times and the New York Post. Van Booy is the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love, now translated into several languages. He lives in New York City, where he teaches part-time at the School of Visual Arts and at Long Island University. He is also involved in the Rutgers Early College Humanities Program (REaCH) for young adults living in underserved communities.


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Average rating: 3.84 · 1,840 ratings · 363 reviews · 33 distinct works
Everything Beautiful Began ...
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 829 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Love Begins in Winter: Five...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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Why Our Decisions Don't Matter
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2010
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Why We Need Love
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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The Coming and Going of Str...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Why We Fight
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010
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No Greater Gift: A short st...
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Some Bloom in Darkness: A s...
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel
tags: death , life , love
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“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
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“When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.”
― Simon Van Booy
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