Background

Simon, John Ivan was born on May 12, 1925 in Subotica, Yugoslavia. Came to the United States, 1941. Son of Joseph and Margaret (Reves) Simmon.

Education

AB, Harvard University, 1946. AM, Harvard University, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1959.

Doctor of Letters (honorary), Adelphi University, 1996.

Career

Teaching fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950-1953; instructor, U. Washington, 1953-1954; instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1954-1955; assistant professor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1957-1959; associate editor, Mid-Century Book Society, 1959-1961; drama critic, The Hudson Review, 1960-1980; drama critic, Theatre Arts Magazine, 1962; drama critic, Station W National Educational Television-television, 1963; drama critic, Commonweal, 1967-1968; drama and film critic, The New Leader, 1962-1973, 75-77; cultural critic, The New Leader, since 1974; drama critic, New York magazine, 1968-1975, 77-; film critic, New York magazine, 1975-1977; film critic, Esquire magazine, 1973-1975; film critic, National Review, since 1978; language critic, Esquire magazine, 1977-1979. Guest professor of University Pittsburgh. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• John Ivan Simon has been listed as a noteworthy Film and drama critic by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline

    (Paradigms Lost will entertain and reward all who love our...)

  • Private screenings

    (Private Screenings: Views of the Cinema of the Sixties)

  • Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Film

    (1982 Clarkson Potter trade paperback, 2nd printing. John ...)

  • The Sheep from the Goats: Selected Literary Essays of John Simon

    (Ex - Library Book with all the usual markings. DJ in prot...)

  • PARADIGMS LOST Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline

    (Literary Studies, Language Studies)

  • Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Films

    (Unmarked book with light wear)

  • The Sheep from the Goats: Selected Literary Essays of John Simon by Simon, John Ivan (1989) Hardcover

    (1st)

  • Movies into film : film criticism, 1967-1970
  • Uneasy stages: A chronicle of the New York theater, 1963-1973
  • Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Films by John Simon (1981-12-30)
  • Acid test
  • Movies Into Film; Film Criticism, 1967-1970
  • Ingmar Bergman Directs
  • Movies Into Film Film Criticism 1967-197
  • Something to Declare: Twelve Years of Films from Abroad by John Simon (1-Jan-1983) Hardcover
  • Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Film by John Simon (1983-03-02)
  • Ingmar Bergman Directs by John Ivan Simon (1972-05-03)
  • Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Film by John Simon (1983-03-02)

Membership

With United States Air Force, 1944-1945. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, New York Drama Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Circle.

Connections

Father:

Joseph Simmon

Mother:

Margaret (Reves) Simmon