I'm Simone Elias, a writer. Right now, I love teaching young people about old Hollywood, so I wrote a book called Old Films, Young Eyes: A Teenage Take on Hollywood's Golden Age. The book is all about classic Hollywood's relevance in the modern era and how these unknown gems predicted attitudes towards modern struggles such as abortion, divorce, racism, sexual relations, and women's rights. It came out November 15, 2024 from McFarland and was covered in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Forward, FOX News, and more.
I produced and co-hosted the podcast Teenage Golden Age about golden-age movies from the teen perspective. Before that I did my own podcasts about my rotating array of interests: I did one about spying, one about national parks, and another affiliated with the Internet Archive.
I'm a cultural critic at heart, but I write pretty much everything you can imagine, including songs and pilots (I recently spent a summer in LA learning the art of TV writing!). I love exploring multifaceted female characters in writing (and analyzing them, like on my series Girlhood on Film).
I’ve previously written a column for a magazine called "Berkeley Hills Living" and have been a guest columnist on California Focus, the syndicated column. I’m also an advocate for mental health, and my interview with Psychology Today has inspired many to come out about experiences with OCD and mental hospital care.
I live in Berkeley, California and Camino (also in California) with my dad and mom respectively.
Contact me here.
For inquiries and oppurtunities, contact agent John Talbot at talbotfortuneagency@gmail.com
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