After The Washington Post
Simons left The Post for a position as Curator at The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard university in 1984.
Simons authored Jewish Times: Voices of the American Jewish Experience, (Houghton-Mifflin, 1988), and Simons' List Book (1977). He edited two books with Joseph A. Califano, Jr., The Media and the Law and The Media and Business, and in 1986 wrote a spy novel with Haynes Johnson called The Landing.
A well-known quotation attributed to Simons:
- "People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart."
He stepped down from the Nieman position on May 25, 1989, on medical leave, and succumbed to pancreatic cancer three weeks later, aged 60.
A scholarship named after him assists minority students aspiring in journalism (see).
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