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Early Life
Fannie Simon was born in New York City on April 15, 1891, the daughter of Julius and Bertha Gubner Simon. Her father emigrated from Germany in 1885 and was able to make a prosperous living for his family as a clothier. Thus Fannie Simon grew up in Westchester and on the Upper West Side, with live-in servants and horseback riding in Central Park with her brother, Alexander.

Career
In 1930 Simon moved to the Murray Hill section of Manhattan where she would live for the next fifty years. She attended Smith College, graduating in 1914, and began working two years later, first in advertising then in the magazine industry, primarily as an on-staff librarian. In 1932 Simon joined the Special Libraries Association, an organization she remained active in until her death. She was an avid supporter of the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the New York Philharmonic Society, and was very active in New York City Republican Club, the Smith College Alumnae Association, the Church of the Incarnation, and her neighborhood association, the Murray Hill Committee.

Semi-Retirement
When she retired from McCall's Magazine in 1959 as librarian and associate editor, Simon volunteered much of her time to even more causes including, at the time of her death, working as the coordinator of a program of conversational English for the English-Speaking Union. Perhaps Simon's greatest passion was world travel, which began when she a child traveling to Europe with her family. Shortly before she died, Simon remarked to a friend that she estimated that she had traveled to over 150 countries, often traveling alone as she did at the age of 89 when she took what turned out to be her last trip to Iceland in September 1980. She published a few travel articles but her full-length manuscript, "Following Fannie in a Changing World," remains unpublished. Simon died in a traffic accident in New York City on October 20, 1980; she was eighty- nine years old.

Feedback from Alison
Hi Erin! I'd like to encourage you to take another look through the week 2 instructional slideshow, which covers three of the major things we were looking for in this exercise: sourcing, linking, and layout via headings. You did make headings here, but unfortunately they are sub-headings — typically seen to separate out information under a larger heading. To fix this, just highlight the text and choose the largest sized "heading" option in the toolbar. It's important to see what kinds of headings are used on other pages, especially biographical ones, if you're working on a biographical page. "Early life" and "Career" are good, but I'm less swayed by "Semi-Retirement." Also, Wikipedia style dictates that only the first letter of a heading phrase is capitalized.

A large part of what makes Wikipedia so great (and wonderfully addictive!) is the linking that happens between pages. We would have liked to see many instances of linking within this passage. That option is the two-link chain image along the toolbar. If you highlight a word and click on that, Wikipedia will automatically try to figure out which page you're talking about, and offer some suggestions. This works really well on topics that are likely to have pages already (like "Smith College.)

References are another integral aspect of a well-crafted Wikipedia page. The link provided was the source for all of the information — when it's the same source citing multiple lines, it's OK to have it at the end of the paragraph! Be sure to create a "References" header and include the "reflist" code as explained in the slideshow.

We also asked you to include an image from Wikimedia Commons in this exercise — be sure to consult the slideshow for the instructions!

I've bolded your grading score on the rubric below — feel free to delete that and this feedback if/when you want to!