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(1941-2020) Editor, author. Daniel Menaker was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in New Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was a book editor who worked at The New Yorker and at Random House.

Full Name

Daniel Menaker

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1941

BIRTH

Robert Daniel Menaker was born in Manhattan, New York, on September 17, 1941.

1945

OTHER

As a child, Mr. Menaker attended school in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, New York.

1950

OTHER

Mr. Menaker attended high school at the Nyack High School in Nyack, New York, in the 1950s.

1960

OTHER

Mr. Menaker taught at the Collegiate School in Manhattan, New York in the 1960s.

1976

LITWORK

Friends and Relations: A Collection of Stories
Doubleday
0385038968 / 978-0385038966
Stories.

1979

LITWORK

The Worst: The Book for People who Want to Laugh in the Worst Way!
Plume
0452251990 / 978-0452251991
Fiction written with Charles McGrath.

1987

LITWORK

The Old Left and Other Stories
Knopf
0394546784 / 978-0394546780
Stories.

1998

LITWORK

The Treatment
Alfred A. Knopf
0679422064 / 978-0679422068
Novel.

2010

LITWORK

A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation
Twelve
0446540021 / 978-0446540025
Nonfiction.

2013

LITWORK

My Mistake: A Memoir
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0547794231 / 978-0547794235
Memoir.

2015

LITWORK

The Committee: The Story of the 1976 Union Drive at the New Yorker Magazine
Audible Studios
1511360143 / 978-1511360142
Article.

2016

LITWORK

The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings that Make Surprising Sense
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
054480063X / 978-0544800632
Nonfiction.

2020

DEATH

Daniel Menaker died at his home in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, on October 26, 2020.

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