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Carly Simon

Biography

Carly Simon

Singer-songwriter Carly Simon was born in 1945, in New York City. She won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1971. In 1972, she had her first hit single, "You're So Vain." That same year she married musician James Taylor. She was the first artist to have won three major awards ---  Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe ---  for a single track, hers being in 1988 for the song "Let the River Run." In 2008, she released the album This Kind of Love.

Carly Simon

Books by Carly Simon

Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
by Carly Simon - Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, Music, Nonfiction

Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair --- Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American history. Nonetheless, over the next decade their lives merged in inextricable and complex ways, and they forged a connection deeper than either could ever have foreseen. The time they spent together --- lingering lunches and creative collaborations, nights out on the town and movie dates --- brought a welcome lightness and comfort to their days, but their conversations often veered into more profound territory as they helped each other navigate the shifting waters of life lived, publicly, in the wake of great love and great loss.

Boys in the Trees: A Memoir
by Carly Simon - Memoir, Nonfiction

BOYS IN THE TREES reveals Carly Simon’s remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster. It was a childhood enriched by music and culture, but also one shrouded in secrets that eventually would tear her family apart. Simon captures moments of creative inspiration, the sparks of songs, and the stories behind writing "Anticipation" and "We Have No Secrets," among many others.

Boys in the Trees: A Memoir - Audiobook
written and read by Carly Simon - Nonfiction

BOYS IN THE TREES reveals Carly Simon’s remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster. It was a childhood enriched by music and culture, but also one shrouded in secrets that eventually would tear her family apart. Simon captures moments of creative inspiration, the sparks of songs, and the stories behind writing "Anticipation" and "We Have No Secrets," among many others. Romantic entanglements with some of the most famous men of the day fueled her confessional lyrics, as well as the unraveling of her storybook marriage to James Taylor.