Daniel Menaker

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Daniel Menaker
Born
Robert Daniel Menaker

(1941-09-17)September 17, 1941
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
DiedOctober 26, 2020(2020-10-26) (aged 79)
New Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationSwarthmore College
Johns Hopkins University
Occupations
  • Author
  • editor
Spouse
Katherine Bouton
​
(m. 1980)​
Children2

Robert Daniel Menaker (September 17, 1941 – October 26, 2020) was an American fiction writer and editor.[1] He worked with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and as a consultant for Barnes & Noble Bookstores.

Personal life

Menaker was born in Manhattan to Robert Menaker — son of a Russian Jewish immigrant — and Mary R. Grace, who was the chief copy editor at Fortune magazine.[2] He attended Little Red School House in Greenwich Village and Nyack High School in Rockland County, New York, studied philosophy and poetry at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and obtained a master's degree in English from Johns Hopkins University.[2] Menaker's father was a communist who was additionally alleged to be a Soviet intelligence agent, and Menaker described himself as an anarcho-syndicalist.[2]

Menaker married Katherine Bouton in 1980.[2] They had two children: a daughter, Elizabeth, and a son, Will, who is a co-host of the podcast Chapo Trap House.[3]

Menaker died from pancreatic cancer on October 26, 2020, at his home in New Marlborough, Massachusetts.[2]

Career

Menaker was a fiction editor at

Nassim Taleb. After leaving Random House in 2007, he became the host for a web-based book show called "Titlepage"[4]
in 2008.

Awards

  • PEN/O. Henry Award for Short Fiction: "The Good Left" 1982
  • PEN/O. Henry Award for Short Fiction: "The Good Left" 1984
  • New York Times Notable Book: The Treatment 1998

Publications

  • Friends and Relations: A Collection of Stories - 1976
  • The Worst (with Charles McGrath) - 1979
  • The Old Left and Other Stories - 1987
  • The Treatment (novel) - 1998
  • A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation - 2011
  • My Mistake: A Memoir - 2013
  • "The Committee: The Story of the 1976 Union Drive at the New Yorker Magazine" - (article, audiobook) 2015
  • The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings that Make Surprising Sense - 2016
  • Terminalia: Poems - 2021

References

  1. ^ Lippman, Gary (January 21, 2014). "That's Material: An Interview with Daniel Menaker". Paris Review Daily. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e Roberts, Sam (October 27, 2020). "Daniel Menaker, Book Editor Who Wrote With Wit, Dies at 79". The New York Times. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  3. ^ Tolentino, Jia (November 18, 2016). "What Will Become of the Dirtbag Left?". The New Yorker.
  4. ^ Rich, Motoko (January 30, 2008). "New Literary Program to Make Its Home Online (Published 2008)". The New York Times.

External links

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