Simon Aronson (1943–December 10, 2019) was an American
magician
Magician or The Magician may refer to:
Performers
* A practitioner of magic (supernatural)
* A practitioner of magic (illusion)
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Entertainment
Books
* ''The Magician'', an 18th-ce ...
and lawyer. He is noted for the Aronson stack and the trick Shuffle-Bored. He was the son of
Arnold Aronson Arnold Aronson (March 11, 1911 – February 17, 1998) was a founder of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and served as its executive secretary from 1950 to 1980. In 1941 he worked with A. Philip Randolph to pressure President Frankli ...
, the brother of
Bernard W. Aronson, and first cousin of
Si Kahn
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Biography Early life and education
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Two of his tricks were featured on ''
Penn & Teller: Fool Us'', both performed by other magicians: Prior Commitment, performed by Graham Jolley (which fooled Penn and Teller); and Shuffle-Bored, performed by Christopher Tracy and Jim Leach (which did not; Penn noted he was already well-acquainted with the trick).
Publications
* ''The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson'' (1978)
* ''A Stack to Remember'' (1979)
* ''Shuffle-Bored'' (1980)
* ''Sessions'' (1982, with David Solomon)
* ''The Aronson Approach'' (1990)
* ''Bound to Please'' (1994, compilation)
* ''Simply Simon'' (1995)
* ''Memories are Made of This'' (1999)
* ''Try the Impossible'' (2001)
* ''Art Decko'' (2014)
References
External links
Official website
1943 births
2019 deaths
American magicians
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