Speaker Profiles

Scott Simon

Scott Simon

host, Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR
Scott Simon is a writer and broadcaster. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.  [more]
Sean Hemingway: A Moveable Feast
Sean Hemingway
September 20, 2009
01:26:34
Sean Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's grandson; Adam Gopnik, New Yorker writer and author of Paris to the Moon; and, Diane Johnson, author of Le Mariage and Le Divorce, discussed the restored edition of Hemingway's Parisian classic, A Moveable Feast, with Sc
Tribute to Jackie Robinson
Sharon Robinson
October 16, 2007
01:29:35
Sharon Robinson and Scott Simon pay tribute to Jackie Robinson during the 60th anniversary year of his having broken the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
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After Kennedy: Reflections on the 20th Century
Daniel Schorr
March 12, 2007
01:33:33
Daniel Schorr, Anthony Lewis, and Jill Ker Conway reflect on the 20th century and the changes that have shaped and changed our nation and the world since President Kennedy's death. Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, moderates.
Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
December 18, 2005
01:28:28
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin explains how the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to become one of the most significant presidents in this nation's hi
The Art of Political Cartoons
Mike Peters
October 24, 2004
01:27:20
Cartoonists Mike Peters of The Dayton Daily News, Mike Luckovitch of The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and Dan Wasserman of The Boston Globe, present a show-and-tell about their craft. Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, moderates.
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Frank McCourt on Teaching in NYC
Frank McCourt
April 26, 2004
01:09:06
Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, discusses his 45 year career as a high school English teacher in New York City with Scott Simon, the host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.
Image of Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
Author: Scott Simon
Publisher: Wiley (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 176 pages
Image of Home and Away: Memior of a Fan
Author: Scott Simon
Publisher: Hyperion (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 384 pages
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