Charles Simmons (author)

Not to be confused with Charles Simmons (author, born 1798).

Charles Paul Simmons (August 17, 1924 – June 1, 2017)^[1] was an American editor and novelist. His first novel, Powdered Eggs (1964), was awarded the William Faulkner Foundation Award (1965) for a notable first novel. Later works include Salt Water (1998),^{[N 1]} The Belles Lettres Papers, and Wrinkles and co-author together with Alexander Coleman of All There is to Know: Readings From the Illustrious Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Simmons in 1987

He was formerly an editor of The New York Times Book Review.^[3][4] Simmons graduated from Regis High School and then Columbia University in 1948.^[5]

Selected works

• Simmons, Charles (1973). Powdered Eggs. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140032010, 9780140032017
• Simmons, Charles (1978). Wrinkles. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0374293333, 9780374293338
• Simmons, Charles (1987). The Belles Lettres Papers. William Morrow. ISBN 0688060498, 9780688060497
• Simmons, Charles (1988). An Old-fashioned Darling. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140111867, 9780140111866
• Coleman, Alexander (Editor); Simmons, Charles (Editor). (1994). All There Is to Know: Readings From the Illustrious Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 067176747X, 9780671767471
• Simmons, Charles (1999). Salt Water. Gallery Books. ISBN 0671035673, 9780671035679