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Fannie Simon was a librarian in the New York City area, active during the 20th century.

Galleta María

Early life

Fannie Simon was born in New York City on April 15, 1891, the daughter of Julius and Bertha Gubner Simon. Her father emigrated from Germany in 1885 and was able to make a prosperous living for his family as a clothier. Thus Fannie Simon grew up in Westchester and on the Upper West Side, with live-in servants and horseback riding in Central Park with her brother, Alexander. In 1930 Simon moved to the Murray Hill section of Manhattan where she would live for the next fifty years.

Professional life

She attended Smith College, graduating in 1914, and began working two years later, first in advertising then in the magazine industry, primarily as on-staff librarian. In 1932 Simon joined the Special Libraries Association, an organization she remained active in until her death. She was an avid supporter of the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the New York Philharmonic Society, very active in New York City Republican Club and the Smith College Alumnae Association, and was active in the Church of the Incarnation, and her neighborhood association, the Murray Hill Committee. When she retired from McCall's Magazine in 1959, as librarian and associate editor, Simon volunteered much of her time to even more causes including, at the time of her death, working as the coordinator of a program of conversational English for the English-Speaking Union.

Personal life

Perhaps Simon's greatest passion was world travel which began when she a child traveling to Europe with her family. Shortly before she died, Simon remarked to a friend that she estimated that she had traveled to over 150 countries, often traveling alone as she did at the age of 89 when she took what turned out to be her last trip to Iceland in September 1980. She published a few travel articles but her full-length manuscript, "Following Fannie in a Changing World," remains unpublished. Simon died in a traffic accident in New York City on October 20, 1980; she was eighty- nine years old.

Feedback from Alison

Hi Peri!

You've done a great job of taking the given write-up and making a Wikipedia article! I see a lot of well-placed intra-Wikipedia links throughout! Your headings help to visually (and thematically) break up the information given. Personally, I might have done, say "Career" instead of "Professional life" as you have here, though that's perhaps personal preference. I would like to see a "Death" heading for Fannie, as morbid as that might sound. Also, I tend to see educational background discussed before any mention of career — in Fannie's case, I would probably do a heading like "Early life and education" and include that line about her attending Smith. Then in "Career," I would say something like "She began working two years after graduation."

Your introductory sentence does a nice job summing up the subject — I'd like to see you add the birth and death dates (as modeled here) just after the name, but nice job with the bolding!

It's great that you included citations throughout, though I think they are better placed within the paragraphs themselves (as opposed to within the headings, though of course that makes logical sense to do just that!) Also, I was going to say something about italicizing her unpublished memoir, but as it is a manuscript, you've handled it well! Only tiny nit-picky thing: I would remove the space between eighty and nine in the phrase " eighty- nine years old." A tiny, tricky little thing.

Finally, nice work including an image (and a fun one, at that!) Make sure to include alt text! Oh, and nice job with the references section!!

I've bolded your scored on the grading rubric below — feel free to delete that and this feedback if/when you'd like! Really nice work!

Grading Rubric

Task	Excellent	OK	Unsatisfactory
Spelling/grammar	Fixes all spelling and grammar mistakes present in passage	Fixes most spelling and grammar mistakes in passage	Fixes few or no spelling and grammar mistakes in passage
Citation	Cites information regularly with the provided source	Cites information sometimes with provided source	Cites information rarely or not at all with provided source
Information Organization	Uses established Wikipedia pages as a guide to properly organize information	Organizes the information somewhat on the page	Does not consider how information should be organized on the page
Headings	Uses a good amount of headings in the article, using established Wikipedia articles as a guide	Uses some headings	Uses few or no headings
Linking	Regularly links to Wikipedia pages throughout the text	Sometimes links to Wikipedia pages throughout the text	Rarely or never links to Wikipedia pages throughout the text
Image	Adds an image from the Commons and includes a caption and alt text	Includes an image from the Commons, without caption or alt text	Includes an image not from the Commons, or does not include an image