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Keith Simon was an artist and painter. He was born on January 17, 1922 in Belize City, British Honduras (now known as Belize). He was the son of a prominent physician, Dr. Keith M.B. Simon, of Dominica, and Katherine (nee Craig) Simon, of British Guiana (now Guyana).

Keith was educated in New York City. He attended the Benjamin Franklin High School in New York's East Harlem neighborhood, where he studied art and sculpture under John B. Kenny, and where he earned the prestigious St. Gaudens Medal for Excellence in Drawing.