Simin Behbahani was born on July 20, 1927 in Teheran, Persia. She was a writer, known for Fe'l-e majhool (1971), Ahmad Shamlou: Master Poet of Liberty (1999) and The Green Cold (2002). She was married to Manouchehr Koshyar and Hasan Behbahani. She died on August 19, 2014 in Teheran, Iran.