13 Facts About Simon Rich

Simon Rich was born on June 5,1984 and is an American humorist, novelist, and screenwriter.

Simon Rich has published two novels and six collections of humor pieces, several of which appeared in The New Yorker.

On January 14,2015, Man Seeking Woman, a television comedy series created by Simon Rich premiered on the cable channel FXX.

Simon Rich attended The Town School, and then went on to attend Dalton School.

Simon Rich's step-mother, Alex Witchel, is a reporter for The New York Times.

Simon Rich then departed to work as a staff writer for Pixar.

In 2013 and 2014, Simon Rich was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 List.

Simon Rich has written for McSweeney's, The Believer, GQ, The Observer magazine, Mad magazine, Vanity Fair, UK Glamour, Italian GQ, Italian Granta, NPR.

Simon Rich's writing has been selected for numerous anthologies including The Best of McSweeney's, and I Found This Funny, edited by Judd Apatow.

Simon Rich wrote the screenplay for the film An American Pickle, which premiered in 2020.

Simon Rich is slated to write the script based on the illustrated book Unicorn Executions, to be produced by Universal Studios.

Simon Rich released his third collection of stories, The Last Girlfriend on Earth in 2013.

In 2012, Simon Rich published his second novel, What in God's Name, which The New York Times Book Review compared to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.