Portrait by Liza Heider
From 1981 to 1989, Simone Corday danced at the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater in San Francisco. She was a girlfriend of porn king Artie Mitchell from 1982 until he was killed in 1991. She also worked for the Mitchell Brothers booking agent from 1988 to 1991.Corday has been interviewed about the Mitchell Brothers many times. Her pieces relating to her friend gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson have appeared on Marty Flynn’s Hunter Thompson resource site HSTBOOKS.ORG. Her book Years Behind the Green Door, A Memoir: A Mitchell Brothers Stripper Remembers Her Lover Artie Mitchell, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Killing That Rocked San Francisco was published in 2007.She has an MA in English from the University of California. She has worked a variety of jobs and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1975. Simone Corday is her pen name.