Simon Aronson was raised in the suburbs of New York city, first in Forest Hills (Queens), then in Rye (Westchester County). ![]() Simon Aronson married Virginia Lee Cook in 1974. His brother, Bernard Aronson, was a speechwriter for Vice President Walter Mondale and later was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1989 to 1993. Simon Aronson is the elder son of Arnold Aronson, a civil rights leader, and Annette Aronson, a painter and artist. In addition to his card magic, Aronson has for over 40 years professionally performed a two-person mind reading act entitled “It’s the Thought that Counts” with his wife Ginny. ![]() His original magic effects Shuffle-bored, Red See Passover, Side-swiped and others are staples in the performing repertoire of many magicians. Well known for devising card magic that combines subtleties, novel mathematical procedures, stacked arrangements, and sleight-of-hand, Aronson’s effect "Prior Commitment" (which introduced Aronson’s UnDo Influence principle to the magic world, in his book “Try the Impossible” (2001)) successfully fooled Penn & Teller on Britain’s television show "Fool Us." (June 18, 2011). Aronson is one of the pioneers of memorized deck magic, and his Aronson Stack (first published in his pamphlet "A Stack to Remember" (1979)) is one of the two most popular “memorized-deck” stacks around the world.
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