| Anne Simon | |
| Birth Name: | Anne Rebe Wertheim |
| Birth Date: | 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Cos Cob, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Death Date: | July 29, 1996 (age 81–82) |
| Death Place: | Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Education: | B.A. Smith College M.A. Columbia University |
| Occupation: | Environmentalist, author, writer |
| Children: | 4 |
Anne W. Simon (1914 – July 29, 1996) was an American writer and environmentalist.
She was born Anne Rebe Wertheim, in Cos Cob, Connecticut, the daughter of Alma (née Morgenthau) and banker Maurice Wertheim.[1] Her grandfather was ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr. Her sisters were Josephine Wertheim Pomerance[2] (mother of climate activist Rafe Pomerance) and Barbara W. Tuchman (mother of Jessica Mathews). In 1935, she graduated with a B.A. from Smith College and then earned a M.A. in Social Work from Columbia University.[1]
She began her career as a writer WNYC, a radio station in New York and later worked as a television critic for The Nation.[1] She then wrote for various publications including McCall's and Good Housekeeping.[1] In 1964, she wrote Stepchild in the Family: A View of Children in Remarriage based on her experiences as a stepchild and as a stepparent.[1] In 1973, No Island Is an Island: The Ordeal of Martha's Vineyard about sprawl, traffic jams, and pollution at Martha's Vineyard.[1] In 1978, she wrote The Thin Edge: Coast and Man in Crisis about the poor condition of dunes and beaches.[1] In 1984, she wrote, Neptune's Revenge: The Ocean of Tomorrow, was a critique of overfishing, oil spills, radioactive waste, and toxins.[1]
She was born into an ethnically Jewish family. In her later life, she married thrice. Her first husband was Dr. Louis Langman who she married in 1937; the marriage ended in divorce.[3] [4] Her second husband was real estate developer Robert E. Simon; the marriage ended in divorce.[1] Her third husband was Walter Werner.[1] She had four children from her first marriage: Thomas Langman; Betsy Langman Schulberg (married to Budd Schulberg), Lynn Langman Lilienthal (married Philip H. Lilienthal in 1963), and Deborah Langman Lesser.[1] [5] [6] [7]
She died on July 29, 1996, she died at her home in Manhattan.[1]