Mayo Simon

{{short description|American screenwriter, author and playwright}}

{{Distinguish|Simon Mayo}}

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|name=Mayo Simon

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|birth_place=United States

|occupation=Screenwriter, author, playwright

|years_active=1963–present

|children=4, including Francesca and Anne

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Mayo Simon is an American screenwriter, author and playwright.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Marooned (1969) The Screen: 'Marooned,' Space Film, Opens the New Ziegfeld:Story Built on Perils of Planetary Trips|first=Howard|last=Thompson|date=December 19, 1969|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E05E5DC1131EE3BBC4152DFB4678382679EDE}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/164947/Mayo-Simon/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114222734/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/164947/Mayo-Simon/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-11-14|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2013|title=Mayo Smith}}

He is the father of the author Francesca Simon{{cite news |author=McCrum, Robert |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/13/francesca-simon-books-interview |title=Francesca Simon: 'When I started out, people would ask: "When will you write for adults?"' |work=theguardian.com |date=13 September 2013 |access-date=August 11, 2015 |quote=Her father, Mayo Simon, was an American screenwriter who graduated from educational public television (KETC) programmes to Hollywood during the early 1960s. Simon, who says she is 'very obviously the eldest' of four, was brought up in a nomadic, hand-to-mouth but happily chaotic Jewish American family home. . . . By the time she went to college, she had lived in California, England and France, but considers herself to be very much a West Coaster.}} and biologist-X-Files science advisor Anne Simon.{{cite news |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/meet-the-scientist-behind-the-return-of-the-x-files-to-television/2015/08/09/e983fc40-3bba-11e5-9c2d-ed991d848c48_story.html |title = Meet the scientist behind the return of 'The X-Files' to television |last = McCoy |first = Terrence |date = August 9, 2015 |newspaper = The Washington Post |access-date = August 11, 2015 |quote = Her dad, Mayo Simon, was a Hollywood scriptwriter. He penned some prominent sci-fi offerings — 'Marooned,' 'Futureworld' and 'Man from Atlantis' — when she was a child living in Southern California.}}