Simmaren was born in 1949, lives in Chicago, Illinois, and is an attorney with a large law firm specializing in state and local government law and finance, corporate finance and banking. He has interests in science fiction (has been reading actively since 1960); the works of Jane Austen; Samuel Johnson and Enlightenment England generally; the history, culture and society of ancient Greece and Rome and ancient and modern China and Japan; renaissance and Baroque music; jazz; anime; science and technology; and contemporary culture and politics. Simmaren studied French and Chinese and majored in East Asian Studies/History in college. Simmaren likes to hike and (formerly) to backpack in the mountains of the Western United States. He also paddles canoes and sea kayaks with his family. He became a WP:User on February 14, 2007. Simmaren does not have as much time to spend on WP as he would like.

A Talent for War

Ancient Rome -- Military

Rostra

Martha Lloyd

Jane Austen with Awadewit

Reception history of Jane Austen with Awadewit and Maria

Timeline of Jane Austen with Awadewit

Haibane Renmei

User:Simmaren/Userboxes

• Working with Awadewit on revising the Jane Austen article to bring it up to FA status. See:

• Jane Austen–Draft Themes and Style
• Draft Jane Austen's Family
• Draft Juvenilia (Jane Austen)
• Styles and themes of Jane Austen

• Working to revise the article on Haibane Renmei to improve content, clarity and style and to add critical material.

• Add material re popular reaction to Reception history of Jane Austen

• Fill in "citations needed"

• Determine the correct number of contemporary reviews ["Reception History"]

• Work with Mike Christie on Jane Austen family tree

• Complete research and notes for "Style"

• Write/rewrite/consult/argue about "Style"

Revise the individual articles on the novels of Jane Austen

Clean up and perhaps extend Martha Lloyd

An article on the concept of a "living" for members of the Anglican clergy

Rewriting the sections of Ancient Rome dealing with government and law

Contributions to the article on Courtship Rite

Articles on two novels by Jack McDevitt: Polaris and Seeker

Contributions to biographical articles on Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, John Evelyn, William Hazlitt, Lise Meitner, Samuel Pepys, John Day, Maria Edgeworth

Contributions to the following articles: Encyclopedie [with Awadewit, WillowW and a player to be named later], Anti-Jacobin Review

• Who is watching an article?

en.wikipedia.org article traffic statistics program

• To create proper blockquotes when a left-aligned image would normally eliminate the left margin of the text:

Template:Imagequote

• Proper use of templates and infoboxes:

User:Geogre/Templates

• Show/hide text template:

Template:Hidden

• Column templates:

Template:Col-begin

• ^{[citation needed]} template:

Template:Fact

• Tool to show contributions to any page sorted by editor:

Contributors Tool

• To count words of readable prose in article text:

User talk:Dr pda/prosesize.js

• Maps:

Ruhrfisch

• Charts:

Mike Christie

• Taste in Type, Graphics:

Fvasconcellos

• Writing Guide:

How to Satisfy Criterion 1a (Tony1)

• Proper use of templates and infoboxes:

User:Geogre/Templates

Simmaren Sandbox

Jane Austen Outtakes

Jane Austen Article Research Notes

Notes on Jane Austen's Final Illness [Ignore Please]

Notes on Jane Austen's Final Illness [Current Edition]

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