''The Lost Father'' is a novel written by
American
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novelist
Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) is an American novelist. She has written six novels and studied English at the University of California, Berkeley and Languages and Literature at Columbia University.
She won a Whiting Award for her fir ...
. It is the sequel to Simpson's first novel,
''Anywhere But Here'' and based on her real search for her father, Abdulfattah ‘John’ Jandali. It also contains a fictionalized portrait of her mother, Joanne Carole Schieble. Jandali and Schieble are
Steve Jobs' birth parents (although this fact does not appear in the novel).
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1992 novels
Arab-American novels
Novels by Mona Simpson
American autobiographical novels
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