Dawn Langley Simmons

| death_place = Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. | occupation = | language = English | nationality = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = John-Paul Simmons | partner = | children = Natasha Simmons | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | portaldisp = }} Dawn Langley Pepita Simmons (16 October 1922 – 18 September 2000) was an English author and biographer. Born as Gordon Langley Hall, Simmons lived her first decades as a male. As a young adult, she became close to British actress Dame Margaret Rutherford, whom she considered an adoptive mother, and who was the subject of a biography Simmons wrote in later years. Provided by Wikipedia