Maria Semple
Maria Semple’s first novel, This One is Mine, was set in Los Angeles, where she also wrote for television shows including Arrested Development, Mad About You, and Ellen.
Semple was born in Santa Monica, California. Her family moved to Spain soon after she was born. There her father, the screenwriter Lorenzo Semple, Jr., wrote the pilot for the television series Batman. The family moved to Los Angeles and then to Aspen, Colorado. Semple attended boarding school at Choate Rosemary Hall, then received a BA in English from Barnard College in 1986.
Books by Maria Semple
Go Gentle
In Go Gentle, bestselling author Maria Semple introduces us to Adora Hazzard, a divorced Stoic philosopher living a peaceful, controlled life on New York’s Upper West Side. Adora believes she…