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Simon Van Booy

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born
in London, The United Kingdom
March 15, 1975

gender
male

website

genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs


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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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Simon Van Booy's Books

Average rating: 3.85 · 2,786 ratings · 527 reviews · 36 distinct works · Similar authors
Everything Beautiful Began ...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,265 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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The Secret Lives of People ...
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Love Begins in Winter: Five...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
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Why Our Decisions Don't Matter
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2010
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The Illusion of Separateness
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings — expected publication 2013 — 3 editions
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The Coming and Going of Str...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Why We Need Love
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Why We Fight
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010
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3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2010
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Tiger, Tiger: Stories
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009
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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
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“[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”
― Simon Van Booy
tags: bibliophiles, book, book-lovers, books, reading, reading-books
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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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