Simon Aronson

Simon Aronson (1943–December 10, 2019) was an American magician and lawyer. He is noted for the Aronson stack and the trick Shuffle-Bored. He was the son of Arnold Aronson, the brother of Bernard W. Aronson, and first cousin of Si Kahn.

Two of his tricks were featured on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, both performed by other magicians: Prior Commitment, performed by Graham Jolley (which fooled Penn and Teller); and Shuffle-Bored, performed by Christopher Tracy and Jim Leach (which did not fool them; Penn noted he was already well-acquainted with the trick).

Publications

• The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson (1978)
• A Stack to Remember (1979)
• Shuffle-Bored (1980)
• Sessions (1982, with David Solomon)
• The Aronson Approach (1990)
• Bound to Please (1994, compilation)
• Simply Simon (1995)
• Memories are Made of This (1999)
• Try the Impossible (2001)
• Art Decko (2014)