Daniel Simone

Daniel Simone, born July 27, 1955, is a novelist, biographer, and lyricist. He has lived in Europe for eleven years, and he is conversant in several languages, including Latin.
He is a New York City resident and has been for most of his life.
Mr. Simone's writing inspirations sprouted during his childhood age, and those writings began maturing when he joined the roster of contributing editors at the weekly newspaper sponsored by his attending college, Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus), where he majored in English Literature. However, before completing that curriculum, the university administrators expelled him for his perpetration of an illicit affair with a female professor. He was then nineteen years old, and she was a married woman in her mid-thirties.
Mr. Simone continued his academic education at St. Johns University in Flushing, Queens, N.Y. There he enrolled in law courses and writing exposition programs.
Writing career
In the early seventies, under the tutelage of the author, Norman Mailer, who was a founder of The Village Voice, Daniel Simone's politically charged editorials sporadically appeared in that publication. As an outspoken essayist, he vehemently cricticized the U.S policies of the Vietnam confrontation and the army draft laws. Mr. Simone abandoned his writing vocation and went on to organize and administrate several business enterprises. In 1988, in association with the Broadway performer, Chita Rivera, he created a restaurant known as Chita's, obviously named after the famous theatre actress.
In the mid-eighties, Mr. Simone was often spotted amidst various Manhattan social circles escorting to exclusive events a variety of famous women such as, Liza Minnelli, Joan Blondell, Patti Lupone, Karen Allen and the Jazz singer, Sylvia Sims. In fact, on one occasion, while Ms. Syms was performing at the Carlyle in New York City, Mr. Simone was seated in the audience two seats to the left of Faye Dunaway, who was accompanied with her then fiance`, celebrity photographer, Terry O'Neil. At one point during Ms. Syms' act, Mr. O'Neal accused Daniel Simone to have been persistently staring at Ms. Dunaway's legs, and had it not been for the swift intervention of two security guards, most probably, an altercation might have ensued.
In 2005, Daniel Simone returned to his writing passion. He contributed editorials for the Who's Here column of Dan's Papers, the highly circulated magazine based in the renowned Long Island Hamptons resort area. Mr. Simone wrote about interviews and biographical highlights of celebrity residents of that region, a touristic locality that the media has dubbed, Malibu on the Atlantic.
In the late part of 2006, a publisher commissioned Mr. Simone to ghostwrite the biographies of two prominent female actors. Because of a traditional contractual secrecy agreement, which ghostwriters are obligated to honor, the identities of the subjects have not been disclosed.
On or about 2007, the national chain bookstore, Barnes & Noble, invited Daniel Simone to conduct writing workshops at its locations centered in Long Island, N.Y.
Mr. Simone is in the process of producing three novels. The first volume of those proposed projects, its theme and storyline is inspired by the true life and career of an ex New York City homicide detective, who embarks on a quest to exonerate and free from prison a young man who was wrongfully incarcerated for seventeen years. In an effort to protect the real killer, who, in reality, was the victims' business partner, the authorities accused him of murdering his parents.
Mr. Simone is a scholar of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and Mario Puzo, a powerful confluence of influence that is reflected in Mr. Simone's writing inclinations and his literary compositions.
Currently, Daniel Simone writes a popular feature in the monthly publication, Long Island Pulse, titled, Between the Lines In those stories, he profiles celebrity authors and his discussions with them about their latest tomes.
Mr. Simone is also a celebrity profile correspondent for The Boulevard magazine.
Hobbies and interests
Daniel Simone is an experienced boater and pilots his own long-range motoryacht. In his younger years, he raced competitively with a 41-foot Cigarette speed boat that he had named, Hamptons Express. He is interested in World War 2 epic aviation, and is intimately familiar with bombers and fighter planes of that era. As of late, he enjoys dabbling in culinary arts, and is an avid patron of Broadway plays and musicals.

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