Daniel Menaker

Daniel Menaker was the author of seven books, two of them among the New York Times's Best Books of the Year, another an Editors' Choice. He twice won the O. Henry Award for short stories, and his fiction, essays, and reporting appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper's, n+1, Esquire, and many other publications. He also served as an editor at the New Yorker for two decades and as executive editor-in-chief of Random House, working with Alice Munro, George Saunders, Renata Adler,...See more

Daniel Menaker was the author of seven books, two of them among the New York Times's Best Books of the Year, another an Editors' Choice. He twice won the O. Henry Award for short stories, and his fiction, essays, and reporting appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper's, n+1, Esquire, and many other publications. He also served as an editor at the New Yorker for two decades and as executive editor-in-chief of Random House, working with Alice Munro, George Saunders, Renata Adler, John McPhee, Pauline Kael, Janet Malcolm, David Foster Wallace, and Salman Rushdie. See less