Charles Simmons (author)

Charles Paul Simmons (August 17, 1924 – June 1, 2017) 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), 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 [sic] Britannica.

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

Selected works

 * Simmons, Charles (1973). Powdered Eggs. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140032010
 * Simmons, Charles (1975). Your Subconscious Power. Wilshire Book Company. ISBN 0879801786
 * Simmons, Charles (1978). Wrinkles. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0374293333
 * Simmons, Charles (1979). Rides. Ramsay. ISBN 2859561129
 * Simmons, Charles (1987). The Belles Lettres Papers. William Morrow. ISBN 0688060498
 * Simmons, Charles (1988). An Old-fashioned Darling. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140111867
 * Coleman, Alexander (Editor); Simmons, Charles (Editor). (1994). All There Is to Know: Readings From the Illustrious Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia [sic] Britannica. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 067176747X
 * Simmons, Charles (1999). Salt Water. Gallery Books. ISBN 0671035673