This may not have taught her about writing, but she did learn about marketing and about business. When he died, she became the company president and CEO at the age of twenty-four. Following college, she went to work for her father’s manufacturing company, S-T Imagining, Inc. She focused on psychology, graduating in 1992 from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana before completing her master’s of science degree in industrial relations at Loyola University-Chicago. Unlike many writers, Simone didn’t study literature or journalism in college. After all, that’s the story you hear from a lot of women writers, especially those who write for teens and children.īut it isn’t the story you’re going to hear from Simone Elkeles. Ith five young adult books out and a list of awards to her credit, you might think Simone Elkeles was one of those book-crazy kids who always longed to write.
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